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Perhaps of interest, the translation guesses things like age relations and genders. This is accurate when the word has that same meaning in English, like nun an
by lucb1e 2y ago
Perhaps of interest, the translation guesses things like age relations and genders. This is accurate when the word has that same meaning in English, like nun and monk have a gender, but e.g. the word hairdresser in English is translated to a specific gender in German and Dutch even though the original didn't have one. Similarly for diminutives: "brother" (broer) usually means "big brother" in Dutch because for a younger brother you'd add a diminutive suffix. It's hard to define, but maybe: words that are not synonyms, yet all translate back to your input. (The reverse also exists, of course: insulation and isolation isn't differentiated in Dutch)
The map would be more complete with this information because it may be very similar or completely different and can be interesting to compare, for example:
- EN: receptionist for both, NL: receptionist and receptioniste, DE: rezeptionist and empfangsdame. The map currently just shows the female version for German, without indication that they also use a transliteration of the English.
- EN: little brother, NL: broertje (the submission shows a doubled up version of kleine broertje), DE: kleiner Bruder. Although German has the diminutive suffix to make Brüderchen, they don't use it the way that we do, which I find interesting to see.
Google Translate's API can output multiple options, <https://cloud.google.com/translate/docs/reference/rest/v3beta1/TranslateTextResponse https://cloud.google.com/translate/docs/reference/rest/v3bet...>, and Google's own website seems to indeed provide these different variants, but there is no label to say what the different array entries mean the way that Google's own website shows
I got curious which gender it guesses that you might mean. It seems to assume a male unless it's also very heavily female-connotated in English. In Dutch and German, it outputs male for hairdresser and doctor, female for nurse and receptionist (German translations mean "sick-sister" and "reception lady", respectively), and mixed for secretary (female in Dutch, male in German) because Dutch doesn't have a male word for it anymore (only workarounds)