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Google Translate does Yiddish, which is very cool. However, it seems very picky about what type of spelling it will accept. It simply doesn't translate whole p
by blisterpeanuts 6y ago
Google Translate does Yiddish, which is very cool. However, it seems very picky about what type of spelling it will accept. It simply doesn't translate whole phrases from the article if it doesn't have the particular variation. For example, "nisht" (not) is sometimes Romanized as "nicht". Google understands the latter, but not the former.
I don't know enough Yiddish to say what system of standards Google Translate is based on, but it perhaps needs to be expanded a bit to accommodate different spellings.
However, when I use the Yiddish characters, e.g. "נישט" for "nisht", Google Translate gets it right.
Aside from all that, it's safe to say that American English has inherited quite a few more Yiddish words than has Polish.
- bodhiandphysics 6y agoShockingly few given that 10% of the population was Jewish!
- randomreplies 6y ago10%? 2.4% in america[1] today, 0.2% world pop [2] numbers from wikipedia [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Jews https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Jews [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jews https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jews
- gkop 6y agoI think parent comment was referring to Polish.
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