Thanks for helping out, Harald. Thanks for your feedback, Jumpsenhoy
Please go to this page to learn more about Translation quality and how you can help: http://translate.google.com/about/ Also, please feel free to give us more feedback in this forum. On Oct 31, 12:58 am, Harald Korneliussen wrote: > The reason is that Google Translate is a statistical translation > system. It has very little preprogrammed knowledge of grammar, and > probably nothing about the meaning of words. It figures those things > out by looking at large bodies of text. If Swedes talk about Mona > Sahlin with the same stereotypical phrases as we Norwegians speak > about Jens Stoltenberg, Google Translate may be misled into thinking > they are words describing the same concept. It makes errors like these > all the time. > > You could perhaps think that names should never be translated, but > this is not so. For instance, if I read a Lynvingen comic, > Johannesevangeliet and watched "Hjelp, vi flyr", a good translator > should understand that I read a Batman comic, the Gospel according to > John, and watched "Airplane". Google Translate handles the two first > of those, but currently fails on the third. It used to translate all > three correctly, but Google seem to have made it less eager to > translate names now - perhaps to avoid the very errors you are > complaining about. Microsoft's translator, which also is statistical, > succeeds at "Airplane" but fails at "Batman". > > -- Harald Korneliussen (independent Google Translate-watcher :-p ) > > On 29 Okt, 12:16, Jumpsenhoy wrote: > > > > > > > > > I suddenly discovered, that you translate the area "Vesterålen" to > > "Lofoten" in english - which is a different area, south of Vesterålen. > > Why on earth do you do that? It's a bit like translating George to > > Franklin - totally different name, totally misleading. > > > Even more strange, If I write without our special letter å, > > "Vesteraalen", you suddenly translate it to "Vesterålen" in English. > > > What? Why? Is this a joke, and when are you finished joking? -- 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.
