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When you doubt, use google translate instead of randomly hitting the keyboard.
by habibur 4y ago
When you doubt, use google translate instead of randomly hitting the keyboard.
- reaperducer 4y agoAccording to the professional translators I work with, the results would be the same.
- Semaphor 4y agoWe just had a hilarious/sad case in German public media where it seemed like Google Translate was used for "plant shaped C4 charges" which resulted in a translation for "plant-shaped" instead of "planting shaped" [0] and then asked an expert how realistic it is that C4 was disguised as plants… [0]: https://translate.google.com/?sl=en&tl=de&text=plant%20shaped%20C4%20charges&op=translate https://translate.google.com/?sl=en&tl=de&text=plant%20shape...
- numpad0 4y agoI think the parent is meant to say that MTs are only good as randomly hitting the keyboard to professional eyes... But besides, I doubt "plant shaped C4" contains enough information to guarantee a correct answer in that case. Trying partial sentences and/or individual words through (human or machine) translations don't go well.
- Semaphor 4y agoYeah, you are right, for some reason I thought I was replying to grandparent. Removed the "maybe not" as I meant to agree with parent. The plant shaped was not a fragment, but the whole text, this has a screenshot [0]. It was about fact-checking the Seymour Hersh Nordstream 2 article. [0] https://nitter.librenode.org/Samy_t42/status/1628793121965211649 https://nitter.librenode.org/Samy_t42/status/162879312196521...
- slim 4y agobecause when you copy/paste into your editor that does not support arabic, the text gets scrambled. one trick is to check if the text looks the same as in google translate after you pasted it