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I don't have one with an accent right now, but something similar: it refuse to translate from french to english "plaid", but it work with "un plaid", which
by Kuinox 3y ago
I don't have one with an accent right now, but something similar:
it refuse to translate from french to english "plaid", but it work with "un plaid", which in this case correctly translate to "a blanket".
Edit: I found one with accent, both translation are wrong but one more incorrect than the other:
"avoir la chiasse aigue" from french to english.
it means "having acute diarrhea".
Without the accent, gtranslate translate it to "to have an acute headache"
With the accent, it translate it to "to have a sharp stomach"
https://translate.google.com/?sl=fr&tl=en&text=avoir%20la%20chiasse%20aigue&op=translate https://translate.google.com/?sl=fr&tl=en&text=avoir%20la%20...
- philistine 3y agoWell you’re highlighting the whole premise of Google Translate with your example. It requires context. It’s not confident enough to translate a word coming from English, that seems to be used very little outside France, and probably not that common in the sources of Google Translate. So you need to give it a context by adding an article.
- Kuinox 3y agoOf course it's better with context, but my second example isn't something dependent of context, it's a single accent.
- panarky 3y agoThe French term "chiasse" is slang for diarrhea, so the translation to English should also use a slang term for diarrhea. Maybe a closer translation would be "having a bad case of the runs".