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It doesn't even translate the word "no" from english to slovak properly, it say it's "č" but should be "nie" https://translate.google.com/?sl=auto&tl=sk&text=no&op=trans...
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Bear in mind that Taiwan (the country) also calls itself China, and so did the rest of the world until the seventies.
What do people living in Taiwan call the 'other' China? Is "mainland China" a correct thing to say, or is the word "main" there implying that Taiwan is lesser and not an equal/peer state? I used the word China in other comments because I didn't know what to call it otherwise, hoping that in the context of Taiwan it is clear what I mean
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Bear in mind that Taiwan (the country) also calls itself China, and so did the rest of the world until the seventies.
What do people living in Taiwan call the 'other' China? Is "mainland China" a correct thing to say, or is the word "main" there implying that Taiwan is lesser and not an equal/peer state? I used the word China in other comments because I didn't know what to call it otherwise, hoping that in the context of Taiwan it is clear what I mean
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Google does not use a language code in the UI. They describe the language as “Chinese (Traditional)”, which could mean anything. The URL contains a language code, but that’s just an internal implementation detail.
Google should rid itself of the notion that “Traditional Chinese” and “Simplified Chinese” are anything but complete misnomers if you’re talking about languages . They are scripts , and scripts don’t have a 1:1 mapping to languages. Imagine a world in which Google Translate has one entry called “Latin” for anything using Latin script (Welsh, Irish, you name it) and another entry “Simplified Latin” for English. Just l…
It makes an absolute mess of Japanese too. Where I work we explicitly suggest people use DeepL instead.
(and I just noticed that Deepl runs Linguee now)
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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…
Can you point to a specific instance of a proposed ISO standard that was shot down by committee? 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…
When saying “little demand internationally”, could you clarify what international demand was there for a standard for romanizing Mandarin and why that is somehow not applicable to Yue?
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???
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…
I think maybe it's English that would benefit from being written in ideograms! The popularity of emoji is partly due to their compactness.
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…
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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.
And speech to text!