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Google Translate pronounces 'rooster' in Spanish

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Re: Google Translate pronounces 'rooster' in Spanish

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Post by mkl »

aasasd wrote: post #54
C19is20 wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As a non-native. Isn't it assumed 'english', means uk english, and anything localised is 'australian english....indian english', etc? I've even heard of 'scottish english'.

Considering that the English-language web is almost completely occupied by USians, it would be hilarious if they were required to finally declare that they speak ‘American’ and not ‘English’.

> Considering that the English-language web is almost completely occupied by USians

"Almost completely"? Nowhere close. About two thirds of native speakers (maybe a little more of those on the web, but not much), and not even half of all English speakers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_English-s...

Re: Google Translate pronounces 'rooster' in Spanish

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Post by folex »

SlowBall wrote: post #16

Could be some kind of joke/Easter egg. In spanish "Gallo" is also used to refer to that high pitch that sometimes comes randomly when speaking, more commonly in male teenagers. Which is similar to what's happening here.

Same in Russian, rooster (petooh) is used for high pitched voice crack. "Made a rooster".

Re: Google Translate pronounces 'rooster' in Spanish

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Post by whoooooo123 »

C19is20 wrote: post #51
capableweb wrote: post #46

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Also called "Passaggio" if it's on purpose :) As a side-note, "In English" is too broad as the English spoken in the US, Australia and the UK is all different. I always felt it would be better if people specified their location rather than the mother-language when talking about what something is called in English. Same for Spanish as well, as different words mean different things depending on if you're in Spain, Arge…

As a non-native. Isn't it assumed 'english', means uk english, and anything localised is 'australian english....indian english', etc? I've even heard of 'scottish english'.

No.

Re: Google Translate pronounces 'rooster' in Spanish

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Post by JadeNB »

aasasd wrote: post #54
C19is20 wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As a non-native. Isn't it assumed 'english', means uk english, and anything localised is 'australian english....indian english', etc? I've even heard of 'scottish english'.

Considering that the English-language web is almost completely occupied by USians, it would be hilarious if they were required to finally declare that they speak ‘American’ and not ‘English’.

> Considering that the English-language web is almost completely occupied by USians, it would be hilarious if they were required to finally declare that they speak ‘American’ and not ‘English’.

For what it's worth, I have always described the language I speak as 'American', and it confuses people no end. ("Don't you mean 'English'?")

Re: Google Translate pronounces 'rooster' in Spanish

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Post by vidarh »

nosianu wrote: post #42
system2 wrote: post #37

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I don't hear anything special for both words?

He wrote "google" instead of "translate" so I think he was referring to the fact that Google keeps asking > Did you mean: Recursion when you search for "Recursion" so you can click on that search suggestion and follow it forever. Just my interpretation of the comment and what I found though. https://www.google.com/search?q=Recursion

Not a direct comparable, but Yahoo! used to show a second search box in the results above the "real" results" for the (shockingly many; I don't recall the numbers, but when I worked at Yahoo 2003-2005 it was a not insubstantial number) users who would do a yahoo search for Google to do their actual search, to try to get them to do their actual search at Yahoo instead of clicking through.

The notion of some of them getting stuck in a loop is more amusing to me than it should be.

Re: Google Translate pronounces 'rooster' in Spanish

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Post by cromka »

simiones wrote: post #59
froblesmartin wrote: post #53

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It really depends on where you are, I think in Europe the English taught at school and considered the regular one is British English, but if you take movies/series/music, the broader one is US English.

In Romania at least, the English taught in school is American English, not British English.

I think it's the same in Scandinavia.

Re: Google Translate pronounces 'rooster' in Spanish

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Post by SwiftyBug »

stavros wrote: post #50
SlowBall wrote: post #16

Could be some kind of joke/Easter egg. In spanish "Gallo" is also used to refer to that high pitch that sometimes comes randomly when speaking, more commonly in male teenagers. Which is similar to what's happening here.

Same in Greek (though we use the Greek word for "rooster", obviously). I've found that Greek and Spanish oddly share many, many idioms.

Greek is one of the bases of most western languages. You'd be surprised by the amount of words that derive from Greek in Portuguese. Here's a thousand of them for starters:

https://www.dicio.com.br/palavras-origem-grega/

Re: Google Translate pronounces 'rooster' in Spanish

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Post by cromka »

mkl wrote: post #61
aasasd wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Considering that the English-language web is almost completely occupied by USians, it would be hilarious if they were required to finally declare that they speak ‘American’ and not ‘English’.

> Considering that the English-language web is almost completely occupied by USians "Almost completely"? Nowhere close. About two thirds of native speakers (maybe a little more of those on the web, but not much), and not even half of all English speakers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_English-s...

This is self-reported. Consider that 90% of Croatians reported they speak English, but this is mostly the level required to guide a tourist to the closest bar around ;)

EDIT: my bad, you were talking about native speakers.

EDIT2: well, no, my point still stands: the Total includes self-reported and vastly inaccurate additional language speakers. But based on how US is 2/3 of all native speakers, and that there's definitely many fluent-English secondary-language speakers out there, US is definitely not dominating English-language web.

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