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The coolest thing here is the Emoji to English translation, IMO, which builds grammatically-correct sentences from an unlimited number of emojis. Translating english -> emoji -> english makes for some interesting mistranslations. It's good enough that I'm wondering whether they're drawing off recent english->emoji translations to reverse emojis back to the source material. Example of Edgar Allan Poe's Tell-Tale Heart…
So... on a random "lets see what it does"...
I want to give the world a hug -- https://translate.yandex.com/?lang=en-emj&text=I%20want%20to...
to which it appears to redirect to https://translate.yandex.com/?lang=en-emj&text=I%20want%20to... for some reason... and I get it ending with a rhinoceros.
If you watch, you can see it briefly have a hug emoji... before replacing it with the rhinoceros.
this thing is already 4-5 years old at this point
Happy to report all the swear words work perfectly and each have an emoji that makes perfect sense.
https://translate.yandex.com/?lang=en-emj&text=communism%20r...
So... it started out with Hello world. Ok. That made me think of the Hilltop Singers and the amusements of things like "Sprit in the sky" becoming "whisky in the heavens" when translated to Spanish and back. So... on a random "lets see what it does"... I want to give the world a hug -- https://translate.yandex.com/?lang=en-emj&text=I%20want%20to... to which it appears to redirect to https://translate.yandex.com/?lang…
Wonder how long this will fly https://translate.yandex.com/?lang=en-emj&text=communism%20r...