Online translators

yambabe · World Chat Champion Joined: 12 Jul 2004 Karma :

Do they actually work?

Someone posted some Welsh in F&FW today, so being incurably nosy I stuck it in InterTran to see what it said. This is what it came up with:

WildGoose · White Van Man Joined: 21 Mar 2002 Karma :

they used to get me into so much trouble at school back in the days, trying to shortcut crappy french and german homework Brick Wall

they are technically but not grammatically correct i believe, and sometimes utter utter bollocks Laughing

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Teaman · World Chat Champion Joined: 01 Dec 2004 Karma :

Oh i dunno, thats a pretty close translation to welsh, Very Happy

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Resurrection · Ballast Boy Joined: 08 Jun 2006 Karma :

I've just run it through two diff translators and that seems to be exactly what i've found, Perhaps the person has just got the words in the wrong order or welsh is really shite lol

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Sephiroth · World Chat Champion Joined: 09 Apr 2006 Karma :

Welsh is a vile language, who can say that it's 'beautiful'? Uch...

MarJay · But it's British! Joined: 15 Sep 2003 Karma :

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TomR6 · World Chat Champion Joined: 25 Dec 2006 Karma :

They only translate word for word, and word order changes between languages. Therefore fooks up your gcse essay Crying or Very sad

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GodzGift · World Chat Champion Joined: 13 May 2006 Karma :

i use this sometimes

its pretty good

https://www.worldlingo.com/en/products_services/worldlingo_translator.html

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techierob · Traffic Copper Joined: 05 Oct 2006 Karma :

I've seen some rather surreal babelfish translations in the past. About the strangest one I ever came across was in 2001 when I was working for the germans. We were putting together a catalogue of power tool retailers in germany and I'd tacked on a babelfish plugin to see if it'd save us the hassle of making multi-language sites.
I abandoned the idea after an english->spanish->german->english translation of "You'll love our selection of new powertools" translated as "Our robotic cows will eat your liver" Confused

Dave McCool · World Chat Champion Joined: 04 Jun 2006 Karma :

I didn't personally see it, but a mate of mine told me a story of how these things go wrong.

There's a show on the BBC called The Armstrongs (I believe this is it's name, but I've only ever caught the signed version after a night out).

If you haven't seen it, it's a bit like The Office, only it's for real; they own and run a company which makes and sells conservatories. And they're probably worse at people management than David Brent.

During one episode, or so I'm assured, they went to France to try to sell their conservatories to chums across the channel.

They, much like Techierob above, decided that an online translator would do the job, and would save them a lot of expense for a translator.

Unfortunately, the Translator came through with the word "conservatoire," which means "Music Academy."

Apparently the sales pitch was superb, as was the reaction of the French people, who were being sold Music Academies.
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