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> Believe me, if I the syntax in Dutch would keep, get you a very strange result. (This is a literal translation of a correct Dutch sentence.) Of course there
by aix1 4y ago
> Believe me, if I the syntax in Dutch would keep, get you a very strange result. (This is a literal translation of a correct Dutch sentence.)
Of course there are differences, but both Dutch and English are West Germanic languages (descended from proto-Germanic) whereas Portuguese is a Romance language (descended from Latin).
Here is a handy tree showing how various languages are related to each other:
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- tomtomtom777 4y agoSuch a tree mostly describes word similarity. But translating words is not what an AI (or more generally a computer) has problems with. It's word ordering and idioms where AIs stand or fall. Things that show very little correlation in the evolution of language.
- xhevahir 4y ago> Such a tree mostly describes word similarity. It describes genetic descent.
- tighter_wires 4y agoVery valuable insight - I am sure the Dutch speaker you’re informing had no idea what Romance languages are