First of all, thank you all for your discussion and feedback. Fgirl, please be aware of the way Google Translate works is fully automated by machine, no one is explicitly imposing any rules, the translation is generated accordingly to the statistical nature of the corpus we have. Sometimes it contains errors, sometimes we don't have enough training data, sometimes machine logic needs improvement. Please don't get insulted, and if it is something seriously wrong, we will escalate this to the team, and you can always 'contribute a better translation' and give our system more knowledge about the human language.
Harald, thanks for chiming in the thread. Sometimes we could get people angry or disappointed unintentionally, I think overall you guys are enthusiastic users, and there's no need to get it to personal level. I have escalate this to the team, and we are looking for improvement all the time. Regards, Xi On Aug 25, 3:56 pm, Fgirl wrote: > Harald. > > first of all - you are an idiot. > actually, that's it. > and the greatest thing about that word is the fact it's international > - you won't need any translation to that. > > וקבל משהו בעברית - תוציא את הראש מהתחת של עצמך ותלמד לקרוא. > > :) > > On Aug 24, 8:46 pm, Harald Korneliussen wrote: > > > > > If you read their FAQ, you'd learn what statistical translation is, > > then you wouldn't make such a fool of yourself. > > > When translating sentences like these from English to Hebrew with no > > further context, any translator needs to guess at gender. The Google > > Translator just uses whatever form it has seen most often in the data > > it is trained on, it has no idea that this gives a politically > > incorrect result. > > > Threatening to sue Google for something like this when they give you a > > free, valuable service is just contemptible. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "General" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-translate-general?hl=en.
