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Just a reminder to never trust Google Translate (thelemmy.club)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/japaneselanguage@sopuli.xyz
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[–] 15 points 2 years ago (9 children)

Google Translate is generally hot garbage. I've actually found DeepL surprisingly good especially with more "niche" languages like Finnish, although it does definitely sometimes get things hilariously wrong

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    It seems like the sign is trying to kill me in this translation.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    Is that DeepL's app? I've never used it so I have no idea what the UI looks like and I didn't try to translate the sign's text with the web version.

    Edit: out of curiosity I tried out how the web version handles this sign:

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Yeah, it's the android version.

    To be fair, It looks like a problem with the OCR from the app rather than the translation. When I use the phone's native OCR and copy/paste the text into DeepL Translate, I get the same result as you.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    I distrust DeepL ever since I found out it translates "irritating" into german as "irritierend" (which means confusing, and is a common mistranslation for obvious reasons). Though I'm sure google translate does similar dumb things.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    It also does mean annoying/irritating, I don't think it's wrong.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    Duden apparently agrees but it's a rare enough use case that I've never heard it used that way in my life, fair enough tho. Still not a great default tl but at least somewhat acceptable then.

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