Considering that I have a non-zero chance of having to flee into China to escape the equator turning into Venus, I really need to start learning Chinese.
Yeah I was just recently using Google Translate to try to write something in Chinese for a meme and it was really fucking weird, I couldn't quite grasp the inputs and outputs
To be fair sometimes Google Translate absolutely lies when you have ungrammatical words in there. It was just surprising hard to swap words without changing structure
Hmm it acts really weird though. Maybe it's better for normal paragraphs? Look how it changes the meaning of "How are you?"
How are you? How are you doing? How are you today? How are you doing today? How is it going? How's it going? How ya doin? How are ya? How are you doing? How's it hanging? How are you?
Come stai? E tu come stai? Come stai oggi? Come va oggi? Come va? Come va? Come va? Come va? Come va? Come va? Come va?
Considering that I have a non-zero chance of having to flee into China to escape the equator turning into Venus, I really need to start learning Chinese.
The first few months are the hardest by far. The vocab itself ain't too bad.
Yeah I was just recently using Google Translate to try to write something in Chinese for a meme and it was really fucking weird, I couldn't quite grasp the inputs and outputs
To be fair sometimes Google Translate absolutely lies when you have ungrammatical words in there. It was just surprising hard to swap words without changing structure
Pro-tip: https://www.deepl.com/translator is way better than google translate
Oh thank the Lord
Side note, I really want someone to build a translation service that doesn't try to instantly translate 1:1 text.
Everyone says translation is hard because things can have different meanings - they're ambiguous.
Well
Fucking ask
Let me put in what I specifically mean when translating to a different language. Ask what each word means. Ask if it's an idiom.
When I'm translating to my language, give a huuuuge list of possible translations.
Hmm it acts really weird though. Maybe it's better for normal paragraphs? Look how it changes the meaning of "How are you?"
How are you? How are you doing? How are you today? How are you doing today? How is it going? How's it going? How ya doin? How are ya? How are you doing? How's it hanging? How are you?
Come stai? E tu come stai? Come stai oggi? Come va oggi? Come va? Come va? Come va? Come va? Come va? Come va? Come va?