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> it makes sense to have someone on the team knowledgeable about the language while doing translations Speaking about translations, I had. Laughable experience
by redbell 4y ago
> it makes sense to have someone on the team knowledgeable about the language while doing translations
Speaking about translations, I had. Laughable experience when I was experimenting with Google translate API a few years ago, when I picked some random text about solar system from Wikipedia that reads something like “Mercury is a planet of the solar system”, when translated to Arabic, it read “الزئبق هو أحد كواكب المجموعة الشمسية” , apparently, it was not be able to infer the meaning of “Mercury” from the context.
- jamiek88 4y agoWhen I translate that with safari it comes back as ‘mercury is one of the planets in the solar system’?
- khaled 4y agoIn Arabic, Mercury (planet) and mercury (element) are two different words (عطارد and زئبق), here the machine translation is using the wrong mercury for the context.
- Symbiote 4y ago"Quicksilver is one of the planets in the solar system."
- bombcar 4y agoThis is the problem with machine translation, often a round trip gets you back something that looks reasonable. Some of them let you click on each word and see which it picked, but that doesn't always work.