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Just a reminder to never trust Google Translate (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago by hypertown@lemmy.world to c/japaneselanguage@sopuli.xyz

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[–] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 14 points 5 months ago (1 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

[–] Bagel5941@aussie.zone 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 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:

[–] Bagel5941@aussie.zone 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 3 points 5 months ago

Ah right, that definitely makes sense. I can imagine OCR'ing Kanji could be a bit of a nightmare

[–] LwL@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago (1 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.

[–] Tja@programming.dev 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] LwL@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 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.

[–] Tja@programming.dev 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Could it be regional? I hear it relatively often in Munich in that meaning.

[–] LwL@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Maybe, since I live in the north! (Fwiw the meaning of irritating as in irritating skin is pretty common here too, just not as annoyance).