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> Oh, wait, there is: As far as I can tell this is a transliterator, not a translator. It's just turning latin letters into hieroglyphs as you type them. I don
by maxdamantus 11mo ago
> Oh, wait, there is:
As far as I can tell this is a transliterator, not a translator. It's just turning latin letters into hieroglyphs as you type them. I don't know how accurate the transliteration is.
It would be like coming up with a sequence of Chinese characters that sounds like an English sentence when pronounced by a Mandarin speaker. Nothing really to do with translation.
- pimlottc 11mo ago> It would be like coming up with a sequence of Chinese characters that sounds like an English sentence when pronounced by a Mandarin speaker. Nothing really to do with translation. Actually this does happen for some foreign terms/loan words, like the names of other countries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcription_into_Chinese_characters https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcription_into_Chinese_cha...
- ralferoo 11mo agoAnother great example is https://www.blueridgejournal.com/poems/mots01-unpetit.htm https://www.blueridgejournal.com/poems/mots01-unpetit.htm Getting a native French speaker to recite these to native English speakers is hilarious! Especially when the French speaker is trying to work out why what they've said is seemingly so funny.
- maxdamantus 11mo agoSir say "tray bean". Mercy.