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Re: Lorem Ipsum translated by Google

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Post by cema »

epochwolf wrote: post #45
nknighthb wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Now I'm imagining an automated translation of a story from, say, the Star Trek universe to the Star Wars universe, substituting place and character names based on frequency of use in each universe.

Bad idea. Star Trek stories are horrid quality compared to Star Wars.[1] Do Star Wars to Star Trek. ;) 1: Based on my own experience. I've read at least 50% of the available Star Trek books and 75% of Star Wars. I've got maybe four Star Trek books I've liked and dozens of Star Wars ones.

Maybe he was talking about the canon (the TV episodes) of Star Trek and the movies of Star Wars?

Re: Lorem Ipsum translated by Google

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Post by acc00 »

nknighthb wrote: post #10
mjn wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Now I'm imagining an automated translation of a story from, say, the Star Trek universe to the Star Wars universe, substituting place and character names based on frequency of use in each universe.

You might like http://neil.fraser.name/software/diff_match_patch/svn/trunk/...

Re: Lorem Ipsum translated by Google

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Post by cpaone »

makmanalp wrote: post #2

I was going to jump in and suggest that google's statistical translation methods were being thrown off by lipsum being used in so many strange contexts, but it turns out "Lorem Ipsum" is a mangled nonsensical version of the original text: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorem_ipsum#History_and_discove...

Thank you. 'Lorem Ipsum' isn't Latin. Translation tools, dictionaries, or your old high school text books are not going to help you 'get it right.'

This is probably an Easter Egg.

Re: Lorem Ipsum translated by Google

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Post by dimitar »

jwarren wrote: post #57

Lorem ipsum is frequently misrepresented as nonsense text. It's not actually the case: http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2290/what-does-the-...

It is nonsense - the text was altered - with modified, added and removed words, that make it nonsense. This is why the latin translator doesn't translate it. It is based though on a Cicero text.

Re: Lorem Ipsum translated by Google

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Post by Someone »

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.

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