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google maps also in taiwan made me ride on the highway on a motorbike which isn't allowed and got a nice ticket for following googles directions even with avoid highways enabled.
Google Maps did make you do anything. It's a dumb tool that is not always correct made by people in USA. You decided to forgo basic due diligence in a foreign country.
Taiwanese here. I have a mixed opinion about this site. Some of them are just weird: - mega → 巨型 (百萬) Really? Do you really want to translate mega to 百萬 (million) in every context? *Edit: every, not any - text → 文本 (文字) Seriously? 文本 is the formal, academic way to say it, even in Taiwan. Have this person never been any academic environment? - through → 通過 (透過) Seriously???
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I have friends who work there, but afaik they all work(ed) for Chromebook-related projects. I'm not even sure if anyone in Google Taiwan is in charge of Google Translation.
> I think this pales in comparison to how you can't translate from or into Cantonese!
I agree. It doesn't translate from or into Taiwanese(Taigi) either tho.
Google Translate has been very broken for a while now and will often just completely refuse to translate, or only partially translate or translate in ways that are incoherent
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> Do you work for Google Taiwan? I have friends who work there, but afaik they all work(ed) for Chromebook-related projects. I'm not even sure if anyone in Google Taiwan is in charge of Google Translation. > I think this pales in comparison to how you can't translate from or into Cantonese! I agree. It doesn't translate from or into Taiwanese(Taigi) either tho.
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> Do you work for Google Taiwan? I have friends who work there, but afaik they all work(ed) for Chromebook-related projects. I'm not even sure if anyone in Google Taiwan is in charge of Google Translation. > I think this pales in comparison to how you can't translate from or into Cantonese! I agree. It doesn't translate from or into Taiwanese(Taigi) either tho.
Yeah that sucks. Isn't that related to (or the same as) Hakkawa?
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Honest question, why haven't china moved to a western (?) alphabet based writing? With my ignorant knowledge, it seems crazy that you are using that way of writing today. Using 24 letter combinations vs memorizing 3000 (min) to 20.000 icons! When I was a kid, my best friend was chinese, and we could never do anything on saturdays because he had to go to a school to learn chines, and how to write in chinese was very h…
Why is the US still using the imperial system? I'm not sure if you're aware, but asking why an ethnos/nation hasn't significantly changed their language/culture to appease someone who finds it difficult to grasp comes across as incredibly rude.
https://translate.google.com/?sl=auto&tl=sk&text=no&op=trans...
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> Who’s mainly responsible for there to this day being no ISO standard for transliterating Cantonese (like Pinyin), and its conspicuous absence from Google Translate (despite having 86 million speakers—consider that Translate supports, say, Welsh, Basque, Dhivehi, and many others that are spoken by fewer than even one million), is probably obvious. There's no ISO standard because there's no actual standard. Even just…
Let’s not mix cause and effect. There are multiple systems because there’s no standard, and there’s no standard because there’s strong opposing interest. Cantonese-speaking world would strictly benefit from this standardisation, lack of it impedes business and takes away from language’s legitimacy. I wouldn’t be surprised if there were attempts to introduce a standardised way of romanising Yue, but certain groups wit…
Because otherwise the default explanation for why there's no ISO standard for Cantonese romanization is the same as why there's no ISO standard for romanizing Burmese, or Malaysian Jawi etc. There's little demand internationally for such a standard.
And if the Hong Kong government's standard, or the Guangdong government's standard (this one presumably preferred on the Mainland) is officially blessed by ISO, would people currently using something else really switch just because of ISO?
Taiwanese here. I have a mixed opinion about this site. Some of them are just weird: - mega → 巨型 (百萬) Really? Do you really want to translate mega to 百萬 (million) in every context? *Edit: every, not any - text → 文本 (文字) Seriously? 文本 is the formal, academic way to say it, even in Taiwan. Have this person never been any academic environment? - through → 通過 (透過) Seriously???
I'm a Western who has lived in Taipei for almost three years. I use Google Translate every day of my life. It's helped me book restaurant reservations and talk to my doctor. I also grew up in Canada, have British parents, and lived in the USA for seven years, so I'm used to switching from "Traditional English" to "Simplified English" too ;-) I mean, ya, sometimes Google Translate uses Mainland China words (e.g., I ju…
As a matter of fact, a special "Cross-Strait" dictionary was developed to deal with all the language differences, with nearly 6,000 words and 30,000 phrases: https://taiwantoday.tw/news.php?unit=10&post=19596
It hardly seems like "no big deal" to those who should know best.
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If you want to write Chinese text on a computer - you still have to use Latin alphabet, because it's not possible to put thousands of characters on a keyboard. So a different writing system for Chinese has already been developed. Some other languages also have more than one writing system. (Serbian and Azeri). When mobile phones became accessible to the general public then many people used Latin alphabet to write in…
Eh, you can find at least three (Traditional) Chinese input methods on any given modern system, and Pinyin is only one of them. Cangjie and Bopomofo require no understanding to Latin alphabets. Not to mention there are other less used methods such as Boshiamy.