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Re: Google Translate Easter Egg

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Post by Pensamiento » Fri, Jan 28, 2011, 1:26 PM UTC

The main interesting that if translate japonese version of I hate you (Watashi wa anata o nikumu) into english the result is the same: http://translate.google.com/#en|ja|I%20hate%20you

Re: Google Translate Easter Egg

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Post by kiyoto » Fri, Jan 28, 2011, 1:40 PM UTC

As posted, the translation is ungrammatical.

http://translate.google.com/#auto|ja|YOU%20%20HATE%20YOU

gives a grammatical (mis)translation.

Re: Google Translate Easter Egg

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Post by eykanal » Fri, Jan 28, 2011, 2:01 PM UTC

I just tried to use google translate in hebrew; giving it words in all lowercase provides a gramatically very different translation than giving it words all in uppercase. For example, typing "good morning" gives the hebrew equivalent of "it is good in the morning" (טוב בבוקר), while typing "GOOD MORNING" gives the appropriate greeting in hebrew (בוקר טוב). Not sure if that's a bug or a feature, but definitely very screwy.

Re: Google Translate Easter Egg

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Post by raghava » Fri, Jan 28, 2011, 2:15 PM UTC

I happened to see meanwhile that even if I type 'goobe'(which means 'owl' in Kannada) after setting source to auto, it says "We are not yet able to translate from Kannada into English". Really, amazing!

Re: Google Translate Easter Egg

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Post by eneveu » Fri, Jan 28, 2011, 4:48 PM UTC

rje wrote: post #5

It seems like "I HATE x" seems to give you some variation that includes facebook. Only seems to work english->japanese Also seems like it needs to be all caps.

Also works for french -> japanese translation:

http://translate.google.fr/#fr|ja|JE%22TE%20HAIS

Re: Google Translate Easter Egg

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Post by joedavis512 » Fri, Jan 28, 2011, 6:42 PM UTC

Reading all the other answers with links to translationparty.com, I decided to google "translation party wikipedia" (without the quotes) and the first result was "Ranks and insignia of the Nazi Party - Wikipedia".

Re: Google Translate Easter Egg

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Post by zach » Fri, Jan 28, 2011, 7:30 PM UTC

cfq wrote: post #7

Translation Party: http://www.translationparty.com/#8641571 I HATE YOU >> I need to use your Facebook

Ah, Translation Party. There goes fifteen minutes of my day.

Here is the result, a retranslation of "I heard Google is on a hiring spree for Buzz."

http://www.translationparty.com/#8646326

Re: Google Translate Easter Egg

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Post by khangtoh » Fri, Jan 28, 2011, 9:04 PM UTC

http://translate.google.com/#en|zh-CN|I%20HATE%20YOU%0A%0AI%...

Check out this translation, it adds emotion as well :)

Re: Google Translate Easter Egg

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Post by zephjc » Fri, Jan 28, 2011, 9:55 PM UTC

The German->German beatbox trick is much more interesting (see http://www.geekosystem.com/how-to-make-google-translate-beat... )

Re: Google Translate Easter Egg

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Post by rudd » Fri, Jan 28, 2011, 10:10 PM UTC

It seems that it's fixed. When this was posted, it translated "I HATE YOU" to "私はあなたFacebookを利用しています".