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Re: Lorem Ipsum translated by Google

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Post by lemieux »

jdmitch wrote: post #9

Surely there has been some manipulating of the search results (this non-standard version of) Lorem Ipsum to get those results form google translate. A more standard Lorem Ipsum text comes up with a pretty standard translation (it actually seems to revert to the original Ciceronian text which it is based on).

It was generated on this site : http://www.lipsum.com/

Re: Lorem Ipsum translated by Google

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Post by b0rsuk »

tehwalrus wrote: post #20
b0rsuk wrote: post #19

This is a wonderful "correct horse battery staple" password generator !!

not anymore...

I don't mean literally with Lorem Ipsum - you can use Google Translate to transform any piece of text into gibberish. When in doubt, translate back.

Re: Lorem Ipsum translated by Google

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Post by mikeash »

mjn wrote: post #8
bbx wrote: post #5

Oddly, "Vestibulum ante ipsum primis" translates to "Cisco Security", although taking each word separately translates to "Manufacturing before football first". I don't remember much about my Latin year but if each word has a different meaning depending upon what other word it's combined to, the possibilities are endless.

Because of Google's approach based strictly on statistical regularities, words can completely change translations based on context even in languages where that wouldn't normally happen, because the contexts can swing the estimates. One funny one comes with city names, where Google sometimes mistakenly "translates" a city to a different city that happens to have frequent usage in the target language, in contexts that…

My favorite one was the word "Amistad!" translated Spanish->English:

    Amistad! -> Friendship!
You could add more exclamation points, and they'd show up on the other side:

    Amistad!!! -> Friendship!!!
But when you reached five, you apparently hit some sort of context changeover, because:

    Amistad!!!!! -> Murder!
Sadly, it has since been fixed.

Re: Lorem Ipsum translated by Google

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Post by gknoy »

d33n wrote: post #15
aasarava wrote: post #6

In case you're interested in learning more, or just having a quick lorem ipsum generator: http://lipsum.com

and in combination with nknighthb's comment you get this: http://www.rikeripsum.com/

Thank you for this. Not only is it thoroughly entertaining, but the source code is fairly helpful. :)

Re: Lorem Ipsum translated by Google

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Post by JonnieCache »

It's obviously been crawling support tickets/emails with people complaining about non-forthcoming copy:

    How long before any meaningful development.
    Until mandatory functional requirements to developers.
We've all been there in one form or another. Those of us that do client work anyway.

Re: Lorem Ipsum translated by Google

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Post by justincormack »

mjn wrote: post #8
bbx wrote: post #5

Oddly, "Vestibulum ante ipsum primis" translates to "Cisco Security", although taking each word separately translates to "Manufacturing before football first". I don't remember much about my Latin year but if each word has a different meaning depending upon what other word it's combined to, the possibilities are endless.

Because of Google's approach based strictly on statistical regularities, words can completely change translations based on context even in languages where that wouldn't normally happen, because the contexts can swing the estimates. One funny one comes with city names, where Google sometimes mistakenly "translates" a city to a different city that happens to have frequent usage in the target language, in contexts that…

No doubt would be confused by "peru is the Spanish for turkey" as well...
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