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Nice. Here's the German version: Amerika, du hast es besser als unser Kontinent, der alte Hast keine verfallenen Schlösser und keine Basalte. Dich stört ni
by zwieback 5y ago
Nice. Here's the German version:
Amerika, du hast es besser
als unser Kontinent, der alte
Hast keine verfallenen Schlösser
und keine Basalte.
Dich stört nicht im Innern
Zu lebendiger Zeit
Unnützes Erinnern
und vergeblicher Streit.
It rhymes so I'd say the first translation you posted has an edge. The second half of the AI creation sounds poetic but completely misses the meaning. I think Goethe is trying to say that the young US isn't weighed down by history as was Europe. Of course that completely changed with the civil war.
- Borrible 5y agoLet's see what Google translate has to offer: "America, you have it better than our continent, the old one Have no decayed locks and no basalts. Don't bother you inside At living time Useless memory and futile quarrel." Well, there is room for improvement. I guess there is already a research paper out there that proves, if you noodle it through various translation programs and languages often enough it has to converge to incomprehensible babble below elementary school level.
- FabHK 5y ago"Schloss" can mean both castle or lock, and here Google translate picked the wrong one. There's this apocryphal story that they ran Matthew 26:41 "The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak." through an English-Russian translation AI and back, and the result was "The vodka is good, but the steak is bad."
- Borrible 5y ago>>"Schloss" can mean both castle or lock, and here Google translate picked the wrong one. Sloppy, it should try harder: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winograd_schema_challenge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winograd_schema_challenge