Google Translate pronounces 'rooster' in Spanish • Hacker News Board

I was wondering about that. I was trying to translate the equivalent of "What the fuck did you just fucking say about me" the other day, and it came out surprisingly wholesome when reverse translated.

Is there an urban dictionary equivalent of google translate anywhere? Maybe whatever Microsoft does...

Re: Google Translate pronounces 'rooster' in Spanish

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Post by system2 » Fri, Jul 30, 2021, 6:42 AM UTC

sxp wrote: post #31

jwilber wrote: post #30

For another Easter egg: google “recursive’

Did you mean [Recursion]: https://www.google.com/search?q=Recursion

I don't hear anything special for both words?

Re: Google Translate pronounces 'rooster' in Spanish

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Post by BlackLotus89 » Fri, Jul 30, 2021, 6:51 AM UTC

timonoko wrote: post #34

Google translates politically correct sentences only: https://photos.app.goo.gl/KzyMWvVyJDLo3DC58

Can't reproduce. A link to your google translate page would be nice. I get "As a general murmur and some clown trial would end in time petty embarrassed"

https://translate.google.com/?sl=auto&tl=en&text=Yle-m%C3%B6...

And here the archive.is snapshot https://archive.is/hXIEW which shows yet something different...

Re: Google Translate pronounces 'rooster' in Spanish

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Post by timonoko » Fri, Jul 30, 2021, 6:52 AM UTC

sillysaurusx wrote: post #36

timonoko wrote: post #34

Google translates politically correct sentences only: https://photos.app.goo.gl/KzyMWvVyJDLo3DC58

I was wondering about that. I was trying to translate the equivalent of "What the fuck did you just fucking say about me" the other day, and it came out surprisingly wholesome when reverse translated. Is there an urban dictionary equivalent of google translate anywhere? Maybe whatever Microsoft does...

Google seems to have locked common swear words to their real meanings. It was popular pasttime to teach Google to translate them into politicians' names. For example "Dickhead" was the longest time "Kekkonen".

Re: Google Translate pronounces 'rooster' in Spanish

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Post by timonoko » Fri, Jul 30, 2021, 6:57 AM UTC

BlackLotus89 wrote: post #38

timonoko wrote: post #34

Google translates politically correct sentences only: https://photos.app.goo.gl/KzyMWvVyJDLo3DC58

Can't reproduce. A link to your google translate page would be nice. I get "As a general murmur and some clown trial would end in time petty embarrassed" https://translate.google.com/?sl=auto&tl=en&text=Yle-m%C3%B6... And here the archive.is snapshot https://archive.is/hXIEW which shows yet something different...

First word was a (leftist) trigger-word. Somebody made a great effort to teach Google to not translate any sentences containing it. This issue has now been corrected, when it became public.