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Re: Show HN: I built this to talk Danish to my girlfriend – works with any language

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Post by shermantanktop »

delusional wrote: post #28
optionalsquid wrote: post #12

This is an interesting idea. But, besides not being able to use your site due to the errors mentioned by other posters, both the examples on your website give me pause: The example input "Kan you hjelmpe mig {yesterday}?" reads to me as "Can you help me yesterday?", but that's just a nonsense sentence and an odd choice for an example. The word for "help" is also misspelled, but presumably that would get corrected. An…

> And the suggestion of "Jeg vil gerne handle i morgen" for "Jeg vil gerne go shopping i morgen", instead reads to me as "I would like to act tomorrow". A more idiomatic translation would be "Jeg vil gerne købe ind i morgen". It's a little better, but I would never expect anyone to translate "shopping" to "købe ind". "købe ind" is about getting groceries for the week, shopping is about walking the strip and dreaming…

If a European language gained a new everyday word in the last fifty years, there’s a solid chance that it’s a loan word from English. A little odd to learn a “foreign” language filled with that stuff.

Re: Show HN: I built this to talk Danish to my girlfriend – works with any language

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Post by Blahah »

delusional wrote: post #28
optionalsquid wrote: post #12

This is an interesting idea. But, besides not being able to use your site due to the errors mentioned by other posters, both the examples on your website give me pause: The example input "Kan you hjelmpe mig {yesterday}?" reads to me as "Can you help me yesterday?", but that's just a nonsense sentence and an odd choice for an example. The word for "help" is also misspelled, but presumably that would get corrected. An…

> And the suggestion of "Jeg vil gerne handle i morgen" for "Jeg vil gerne go shopping i morgen", instead reads to me as "I would like to act tomorrow". A more idiomatic translation would be "Jeg vil gerne købe ind i morgen". It's a little better, but I would never expect anyone to translate "shopping" to "købe ind". "købe ind" is about getting groceries for the week, shopping is about walking the strip and dreaming…

In British english at least, 'going shopping' is a normal way to say 'getting groceries for the week'.

Re: Show HN: I built this to talk Danish to my girlfriend – works with any language

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Post by gaoshan »

It doesn't seem to work with "any language", as claimed. It cannot process Chinese writing (nor can it process pinyin). "Error processing your text", is the message. Though it's certainly possible the volume of traffic has overwhelmed things and it would work under normal circumstances?

Re: Show HN: I built this to talk Danish to my girlfriend – works with any language

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Post by FearNotDaniel »

parpfish wrote: post #48
Cupprum wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Whats wrong with it?

It’s a term that wealthy people use so they don’t have to say that they’re an “immigrant”

Really? I tend to associate it more with bourgeois folks who are well-off but certainly not wealthy, but most definitely want to remain in their own cultural bubble and do everything to avoid learning the local language or integrating with the society of their host country. “Little Britain” types basically. I tend to steer clear of them in my adopted corner of the EU.
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