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I haven't attempted latin translations, but anything from my native language to english and back has been 100% perfect, miles better than anything google transl

• marginalia_nu 3y ago
  Latin is tricky though. Google translate is notoriously bad at latin grammar, much worse than most living languages. Not exactly sure why, maybe small corpus, maybe because it's a pro-drop language without fixed word order and an very complex set of conjugation rules.
  • duskwuff 3y ago
    > Not exactly sure why, maybe small corpus That's probably most of the problem. The entire corpus of ancient Latin is on the order of 9-10M words. If you printed it at the same density as a typical English novel, it wouldn't even fill a bookcase.
    • marginalia_nu 3y ago
      Why would the corpus need to be limited to antique latin? The language was in use for much longer than antiquity. You've got everything from Thomas Aquinas to Isaac Newton to pad with.
      • KaiserPro 3y ago
        Because they are almost different languages "modern" latin is quite different to "roman" latin.
        • marginalia_nu 3y ago
          Even roman latin changed during the millennium it was around though.