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This is an interesting idea. But, besides not being able to use your site due to the errors mentioned by other posters, both the examples on your website give

This is an interesting idea. But, besides not being able to use your site due to the errors mentioned by other posters, both the examples on your website give me pause: The example input "Kan you hjelmpe mig {yesterday}?" reads to me as "Can you help me yesterday?", but that's just a nonsense sentence and an odd choice for an example. The word for "help" is also misspelled, but presumably that would get corrected. And the suggestion of "Jeg vil gerne handle i morgen" for "Jeg vil gerne go shopping i morgen", instead reads to me as "I would like to act tomorrow". A more idiomatic translation would be "Jeg vil gerne købe ind i morgen".

lil_csom 1y ago
Hey, thank you for your input! I definitely have to improve the example texts and make sure that the way the tool should be used is better understood!
delusional 1y ago
> And the suggestion of "Jeg vil gerne handle i morgen" for "Jeg vil gerne go shopping i morgen", instead reads to me as "I would like to act tomorrow". A more idiomatic translation would be "Jeg vil gerne købe ind i morgen". It's a little better, but I would never expect anyone to translate "shopping" to "købe ind". "købe ind" is about getting groceries for the week, shopping is about walking the strip and dreaming of buying random clothing. As a native speaker I'd be less surprised if the you just used the borrowed word "shopping" directly. Basically "Jeg vil gerne shoppe i morgen".
- shermantanktop 1y ago
  If a European language gained a new everyday word in the last fifty years, there’s a solid chance that it’s a loan word from English. A little odd to learn a “foreign” language filled with that stuff.
  - dmoy 1y ago
    > European It's not restricted to European languages. 贝果 is bagel, just sounded out phonetically, and 三明治 is sandwich. Idk if there's anything super odd about it. Of course, English is the worst offender of loan words. As someone else said somewhere, "[English doesn't] just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary." Gung ho, monsoon, filibuster, herbivore, vacation, etc etc etc. Thousands upon thousands of loanwords.
    - dionian 1y ago
      Fun fact, 99% of words ending in -tion are the exact same in French. Every English speaker has a head start of hundreds of word vocabulary in French.
      - stragies 1y ago
        Those words also exist in Spanish, there the ending is "cion", and in Portuguese with ending "cão"
        ElevenLathe 1y ago
        And in Polish: -cja. Lots of languages have had a deep relationship with Latin, not just Romance languages.
  - piva00 1y ago
    With Scandinavian languages it went full circle, there are lots of everyday English words stemming from old Norse :)
    - DataDaoDe 1y ago
      yes, a lot indeed. Even some very rare adoptions that almost never happen in languages (like the pronoun they). My most favorite has to be window though from the Old Norse vindauga (vind = wind, auga = eye).
    - BurningFrog 1y ago
      As a Swede, I can recognize the norse root of most English word for things that existed 1000 years ago.
    - liotier 1y ago
      Same in French. When my colleagues tell me about "le repository Git", I love to answer about "le repositoire git" - sounds mightily quaint but that French word is actually the one through which the Latin repositorium percolated to English.
  - radicalbyte 1y ago
    You'll love Flanders.
  - ge96 1y ago
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHxO0UdpoxM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHxO0UdpoxM
  - palata 1y ago
    On the other hand, English is a Germanic language and got influenced by French. A nice recent article talked about why English doesn't use accents (because... of French) [1]. Just to say it's not uncommon at all to have languages influence each other. [1]: https://www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/why-english-doesnt-use-accents https://www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/why-english-doesnt-use...
- Blahah 1y ago
  In British english at least, 'going shopping' is a normal way to say 'getting groceries for the week'.
  - klipt 1y ago
    Yeah groceries is "shopping" "walking the strip and dreaming of buying random clothing" is "window shopping"
    - poly2it 1y ago
      In Swedish, shopping has been loaned to mean window shopping. Buying groceries is commonly called att handla.
      - ragazzina 1y ago
        I think "go/do shopping" is the same in French, Spanish, Italian and German, as opposed to faire les courses / ir de compras / fare la spesa / einkaufen.
  - SoftTalker 1y ago
    In US english (at least as I speak/understand it) "shopping" is any act of browsing/looking at/selecting something for purchase. It can be groceries, clothes, a car, anything really and it can be online or in person at a store. "I'm going shopping" with no other specifics would normally mean "for groceries" or other general household supplies, though.

lil_csom 1y ago

Hey, thank you for your input! I definitely have to improve the example texts and make sure that the way the tool should be used is better understood!

delusional 1y ago

> And the suggestion of "Jeg vil gerne handle i morgen" for "Jeg vil gerne go shopping i morgen", instead reads to me as "I would like to act tomorrow". A more idiomatic translation would be "Jeg vil gerne købe ind i morgen". It's a little better, but I would never expect anyone to translate "shopping" to "købe ind". "købe ind" is about getting groceries for the week, shopping is about walking the strip and dreaming of buying random clothing. As a native speaker I'd be less surprised if the you just used the borrowed word "shopping" directly. Basically "Jeg vil gerne shoppe i morgen".

shermantanktop 1y ago
If a European language gained a new everyday word in the last fifty years, there’s a solid chance that it’s a loan word from English. A little odd to learn a “foreign” language filled with that stuff.
- dmoy 1y ago
  > European It's not restricted to European languages. 贝果 is bagel, just sounded out phonetically, and 三明治 is sandwich. Idk if there's anything super odd about it. Of course, English is the worst offender of loan words. As someone else said somewhere, "[English doesn't] just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary." Gung ho, monsoon, filibuster, herbivore, vacation, etc etc etc. Thousands upon thousands of loanwords.
  - dionian 1y ago
    Fun fact, 99% of words ending in -tion are the exact same in French. Every English speaker has a head start of hundreds of word vocabulary in French.
    - stragies 1y ago
      Those words also exist in Spanish, there the ending is "cion", and in Portuguese with ending "cão"
      - ElevenLathe 1y ago
        And in Polish: -cja. Lots of languages have had a deep relationship with Latin, not just Romance languages.
- piva00 1y ago
  With Scandinavian languages it went full circle, there are lots of everyday English words stemming from old Norse :)
  - DataDaoDe 1y ago
    yes, a lot indeed. Even some very rare adoptions that almost never happen in languages (like the pronoun they). My most favorite has to be window though from the Old Norse vindauga (vind = wind, auga = eye).
  - BurningFrog 1y ago
    As a Swede, I can recognize the norse root of most English word for things that existed 1000 years ago.
  - liotier 1y ago
    Same in French. When my colleagues tell me about "le repository Git", I love to answer about "le repositoire git" - sounds mightily quaint but that French word is actually the one through which the Latin repositorium percolated to English.
- radicalbyte 1y ago
  You'll love Flanders.
- ge96 1y ago
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHxO0UdpoxM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHxO0UdpoxM
- palata 1y ago
  On the other hand, English is a Germanic language and got influenced by French. A nice recent article talked about why English doesn't use accents (because... of French) [1]. Just to say it's not uncommon at all to have languages influence each other. [1]: https://www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/why-english-doesnt-use-accents https://www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/why-english-doesnt-use...
Blahah 1y ago
In British english at least, 'going shopping' is a normal way to say 'getting groceries for the week'.
- klipt 1y ago
  Yeah groceries is "shopping" "walking the strip and dreaming of buying random clothing" is "window shopping"
  - poly2it 1y ago
    In Swedish, shopping has been loaned to mean window shopping. Buying groceries is commonly called att handla.
    - ragazzina 1y ago
      I think "go/do shopping" is the same in French, Spanish, Italian and German, as opposed to faire les courses / ir de compras / fare la spesa / einkaufen.
- SoftTalker 1y ago
  In US english (at least as I speak/understand it) "shopping" is any act of browsing/looking at/selecting something for purchase. It can be groceries, clothes, a car, anything really and it can be online or in person at a store. "I'm going shopping" with no other specifics would normally mean "for groceries" or other general household supplies, though.