Google translates German “halb zwei” to French “deux heures et demie”: 1h off
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Google translates German “halb zwei” to French “deux heures et demie”: 1h off
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#2dumb machine learning.
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#3I like to imagine this is just the algorithm picking up on cultural stereotypes.
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#4Not familiar with either language. What are the English translations of these two phrases?
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Re: Google translates German “halb zwei” to French “deux heures et demie”: 1h off
#6Same when translate it to Spanish: Dos y media.
On the other hand, it is correctly translated to Dutch (half twee), and English (half past one).
If you translate English to Spanish and French, then the correct time appears.
On the other hand, from Dutch to Spanish/French, it does not know it's time, and does a literal translation -> half of two.
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#7Interestingly it does do the Dutch "half twee" correctly, to French and back. Moreover, halb zwei is translated to half twee and back normally. So there is no inter-dependency or translation "via English" or something.
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#8Translations: 1:30 and 2:30, respectively. Or, literally, "half two" and "two hours and half".
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#9To help my fellow English-speakers:
"halb zwei" ("half two") is the German idiom for "halfway [between one and] two o'clock"
"deux heures et demie" ("two hours and one half") is a much better cognate for the English "half past two o'clock"
We're all used to off-by-one and fencepost errors. To be honest, this is probably a less interesting one of Google translate's mistranslations. But it's one that's very mechanical and we would expect a machine to get something like this right.
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#10Um halb drei -> À trois heures et demie
Um halb drei gehen -> Aller à deux heures et demie
Um halb drei gehen wir -> A quatre heures et demie nous partons
Um halb drei gehen wir ins Kino. -> A trois heures et demie nous allons au cinéma.