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On Oct 17, 1:18 am, Nick Worley wrote:
> I've just come across some odd behaviour with Google Translate.
>
> I typed in the German term "Ortungssytem" (with a capital O) and
> Google Translate gave me "location system" [NB all German nouns &
> compound nouns start with a capital letter].
>
> I then changed it to "ortungssystem" (with a lowercase O) and Google
> Translate changed the translation to "positioning system".
>
> "Location system", "locating system", "positioning system" & "tracking
> system" are translations provided by the online dictionaries Leo
> (http://dict.leo.org), Beolingus (http://dict.tu-chemnitz.de/) and
> dict.cc (http://www.dict.cc), so both Google Translate translations
> are right, but why change the translation just because a capital O is
> changed to a lowercase one?
>
> What on earth is going on here?
>
> Regards
> Nick

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