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This may not be germane to your example, but in my experience of German -> English translation creating several sentences can be the smoothest way to make sense
by eszed 3y ago
This may not be germane to your example, but in my experience of German -> English translation creating several sentences can be the smoothest way to make sense out of something German gets across in a couple of overloaded compound words.
- WalterBright 3y agoI get that, but I know enough German to know it was adding things that were not there.
- cycomanic 3y agoIn general German is much more verbose than English. Compound words can sometimes shorten sentences, however the English dictionary has significantly more vocabulary (see comparisons between Shakespeare and Goethe for example). In German you use causal sentences. Because of that German texts are typically much longer than the English originals, e.g. IIRC the goblet of fire was 150 pages longer in english
- numpad0 3y agoI think it's not said often enough that LLMs hadn't solved translation problem or anything: we only got a new tool, and it is not a perfect universal everything tool. - classical MTs: just jarring, "every work and without slack produce blunt child lift" - pre-LLM AI MT: most natural, but drops expressions that it's not sure about: "We choose to visit in this decennial and it's not easy." - LLM: too US English centric, dry, and weighing flows over content too much: "Is it one obsolete-aesthetic word? So scary to say that." All these are useful, just none are panacea to translation problem(including humans).