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Re: [HCDX] Funny Google Translator
No, it?s just a Google peculiarity.
It does the same thing with Dutch to English - for example, the Dutch news
agency ANP is changed to Reuters :-) Our DG is called Jan Hoek. If you
remember to capitalize both names, it is rendered unchanged in the English
version. But if you write 'Jan hoek' it comes out as 'January angle' :-) And
BTW it only recognizes American spellings.
Despite that, it's very useful for correctly rendering colloquial phrases
which sometimes crop up in interviews, better than the online dictionary
which used to be the only help for translators.
Google Translate is far from perfect, but it's considerably better than most
of the pre-existing translation tools. And it's constantly being improved by
user feedback. But you need to compare it line by line with the original
text, otherwise you may get 'howlers' such as the one Karel mentions.
Andy
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Subject: [HCDX] Funny Google Translator
Hi,
let us say that you would like to read a Serbian text in Cyrillic about
their transmitters, you cannot read Cyrillic so you ask Google Translator to
translate it into Croatian which is 90% identical and it is written in Latin
alphabet. Did you know that if the original Serbian text contains a word
"Beograd", you will get "Zagreb" in Croatian? Well, both are capital cities
but of different countries!
It is a funny thing, you can hardly find any logic and I would never believe
it was possible if I have not seen it on my own eyes. Maybe a nationalism is
the reason?
Well, when you do not understand Serbian nor Croatian and let the Serbian
text translate into English, you will get Beograd correctly. Otherwise the
Google Translator can set a real surprise for you!
Karel Honzik, CZE
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