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I disagree. I can't speak for Deepl, but Google remains terrible at idioms. Give the phrase "There's mud all over the shop." a try.
What if you actually want to literally translate "There's mud all over the shop"?
I worry a lot of language getting will be lost in an effort to reduce it to something a machine can handle.
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What if you actually want to literally translate "There's mud all over the shop"?
And this is where I found translation services to fall apart. I worry a lot of language getting will be lost in an effort to reduce it to something a machine can handle.
Global communication and travel, to say nothing of media consumption, is much easier today. Many more Portuguese or Brazilian people have easy access to English. But back then, someone who didn't even speak English could publish this phrase book and appear credible.
What's remarkable is how good machine translation (DeepL, Google Translate) has become at handling idiomatic expressions in recent years. Still not perfect, of course (there's still the odd clanger), but anyone trying to do the same task today would fare considerably better.
I disagree. I can't speak for Deepl, but Google remains terrible at idioms. Give the phrase "There's mud all over the shop." a try.
Heaven forbid I disagree with Mark Twain, but star war: backstroke of the west[0] is another great example in this uh genre. [0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20170115091456/http://winterson....
This might legitimately be one of my favorite pieces of entertainment in existence, if only because of the delivery and emotion behind nonsense idiom mistranslations. It's glorious.
What's remarkable is how good machine translation (DeepL, Google Translate) has become at handling idiomatic expressions in recent years. Still not perfect, of course (there's still the odd clanger), but anyone trying to do the same task today would fare considerably better.
I disagree. I can't speak for Deepl, but Google remains terrible at idioms. Give the phrase "There's mud all over the shop." a try.
What's remarkable is how good machine translation (DeepL, Google Translate) has become at handling idiomatic expressions in recent years. Still not perfect, of course (there's still the odd clanger), but anyone trying to do the same task today would fare considerably better.
I disagree. I can't speak for Deepl, but Google remains terrible at idioms. Give the phrase "There's mud all over the shop." a try.
In which dialect of English is that an idiomatic expression? Never heard it before (en-gb native). What's the interpreted meaning??
"I go make some shoppings"
"Time for go"
Naturally, the rest of the gang picked them up and used them. I still say them to the consternation of others.