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Similarly, there was a time when Google translated "Japan" in Japanese to "Korea" in Korean... because documents scraped from the web would say "Japan and Korea
by yongjik 2y ago
Similarly, there was a time when Google translated "Japan" in Japanese to "Korea" in Korean... because documents scraped from the web would say "Japan and Korea" in Japanese and "Korea and Japan" in Korean.
- carlmr 2y agoI really like this one, it basically learned that "first country" is "this country", and "second country" is the "other country".
- cperciva 2y agoCommon with international treaties. The trade agreement known as USMCA in the USA is known as CUSMA in Canada and T-MEC (Treaty between Mexico, USA, and Canada) in Mexico. Countries almost always put themselves first.
- syndeo 2y agoTo be fair, if they don't, no one else will!
- schoen 2y agohttps://www.sefaria.org/Pirkei_Avot.1.14?lang=bi https://www.sefaria.org/Pirkei_Avot.1.14?lang=bi "He used to say, if I am not for myself, who will be for me?"
- Detrytus 2y agoAnd NATO is also OTAN, because France insisted on having a French translation of the treaty to be treated equally with English version. Btw NATO and OTAN being anagrams is a coincidence
- jaredsohn 2y agois backwards even
- bouke 2y agoAlso related and because of the French: UTC. It was chosen as a concession between the logical English CUT or French TUC. Also the two are backwards, which I think is not really a coincidence due to word ordering rules in French.
- williamdclt 2y ago> Btw NATO and OTAN being anagrams is a coincidence Not really, many initialisms are mirrors between French and English because their very similar languages in these contexts (same names and same etymology for nouns and adjectives means same letters) and grammatical rules are the opposite of each other (reversed letter order). Eg UN and NU, EU and UE, EEC and CEE, CCP and PCC…
- gpderetta 2y agoAnd then, when you can't even agree on dual initialisms, you get UTC.
- ben_w 2y agoI've seen something similar, briefly and ages ago now, with it doing the equivalent of* en:"I speak English" -> fr:"Je parle français". * It might not have been French, I remember the effect not the detail