Bonjour TitCouille,
yes, I think one MAJOR source of translations problems is that all
translation is performed thru English. This way is definitely easier
to implement for Google, but it allows to have errors of TWO
translation processes in translations other than from or to English.
That might be connected to a limited number of parallel text usable
for training non-English translation pairs, but as long some_Language
to/from English translations have such serious (and embarrassing)
errors like those described, the whole translation is just UNUSABLE
without narrow supervision. Think, what would happen if some ticket
box office in Latvia would use Google translator for their automatic
English localization of their ticket offers ...
And about the false replacement of the current president of Latvia. It
would not be better.
And I also agree, that GOOGLE has a VERY low priority on its
translator and that messages here are not read and analyzed on a
regular and well-defined basis. I assume no quality control processes
are in place at all.
Imagine if still in new articles about the new US president translated
into some_Language George Bush would appear ??? Their would be an
UPROAR and people fired ... with the same error on non-US citizens,
even on statesmen of other countries, they just don't care ...
J'aime les Américains, plus encore quand ils étaient vraiment vivant
en l'extérieur des États-Unis et savent, comment il est "dans le
monde». Qu'est-ce que je n'aime pas: Vous pouvez remarquer qu'il ya un
GROS manque d'éthique et de respect d'autres cultures au niveau
international.
Cordialement,
Jürgen
TitCouille wrote:
> Oh my god ! The name replacement is astonishing ! "Džeimss Blānts" is
> indeed replaced by "Adolf Hitler". It looks like something went
> horribly wrong in the Latvian name database. And because Google
> translates language pairs through English (e.g. Latvian to French =
> Latvian to English to French), the bug affects also the other target
> languages.
>
> The fact that this bug is still there, despite being so serious and
> easy to correct, just proves that nobody from Google is interested in
> this forum. Reading your message, I realized the futility of writing
> any suggestions in here.
>
> Regards to you.
