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Gemini is Latin, my guess is it more easily translates to other languages than Bard.

• LukaszWiktor 3y ago
  Who translates product names?
  • gnicholas 3y ago
    I think the suggestion was that it would work well as-is in other languages. It would certainly be natural in romance languages.
  • pbhjpbhj 3y ago
    "How does that translate to ..." means "how well does that work in" some other area or context; more analogous to a mathematical translation than a linguistic translation. Just a confusing turn of phrase. They almost certainly didn't mean "what does that translate to ..." in another language. Harmonising product names across regions is hard: Jif was a bathroom cleaning solution in the UK, but it's name was changed to Cif to match the name elsewhere in Europe; and that name sounds silly to UK ears. Meanwhile GIF were always presumed to be pronounced like "gift" (a present) without the final T; but we learnt the creators preferred "Jif" which sounds silly to UK ears because it sounds like a cleaning product! (And also wasn't JIF already a file extension (JPEG Interchange Format). Anyway ... language is hard.
    • gnicholas 3y ago
      > Jif was a bathroom cleaning solution in the UK One man's bathroom cleaning solution is another man's creamy peanut butter.
      • svat 3y ago
        “a floor wax and a dessert topping.”
      • epcoa 3y ago
        One man’s creamy peanut butter is another man’s crunchy peanut butter.
• Rexxar 3y ago
  Bard is latin too: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bardus#Etymology_2 https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bardus#Etymology_2
• int_19h 3y ago
  It really depends. Some languages don't use "special" words for astrological signs, so it's literally the same word as "twins". Which is a really weird name for a product.