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high quality cross translations only take you as far, reading "crap" on the internet - is a much bigger data-source. and lets be honest, google is damn good in

• shutupalready 13y ago
  Looking at that piece of Latin->English translation, the word "United States" caught my attention. How did it get there? I tried to narrow it down. This is the minimal phrase that gives "United States": https://translate.google.com/#la/en/Duis%20gravida%20orci%20in%20quam%20tempor https://translate.google.com/#la/en/Duis%20gravida%20orci%20.... Obviously it's an error, but what specifically makes you go from: Duis gravida orci in quam tempor. to: Designers in the film which, unlike in the United States.
  • userbinator 13y ago
    That's what statistical translation algorithms do - form associations between source and target text. How did "United States" get there? Because it was trained on a Latin/English phrase that contained "United States" in the English and probably something completely different in the Latin version, and the algorithm decided that would be the best match.
  • marlin 13y ago
    Curiously, it translates to "It's a child in a candy" on my google translate session.
    • shutupalready 13y ago
      The presence or absence of period is enough for Google Translate to create entirely different translations! My link above doesn't have a period at the end. HackerNews cuts off the period from the end of the URL it seems. So clicking on this link, https://translate.google.com/#la/en/Duis%20gravida%20orci%20in%20quam%20tempor https://translate.google.com/#la/en/Duis%20gravida%20orci%20... gives It's a child in a candy, but if you then manually add a period to the end of the sentence, you'll get, Designers in the film which, unlike in the United States.
      • marlin 12y ago
        omg, that's hilarious!