Thanks Cake. That's absolutely right. Our system can do very strange things when you give it input that isn't actually the language you tell us it is. Japanese Romaji is indeed not English, so if you try translate it from English to Japanese, you will not get what you expect.
Best, Josh Estelle Senior Software Engineer Google Translate On Dec 13, 10:29 am, Cake Hebenstreit wrote: > This is not an incorrect translation that you are experiencing. You > are translating a Non-English word with English selected in Google > Translate. So, it is just translating the text phonetically. In this > case, the Non-English word happens to be Japanese (which means you are > trying translate Japanese to Japanese). デス is basically the Japanese > way of writing/saying the English word Death (it's as close as they > can get). So, even though it sounds like the word です; it's not that > same word. Just keep in mind that translating Japanese Romaji to Real > Japanese isn't the same as translating English to Japanese. > > On Dec 11, 7:11 pm, Gabriella Sanford wrote: > > > > > > > > > I was on english to japanese, I typed in 'desu' and i got デス . So, I > > put that into > > japanese to english, and got 'Death'. Desu is like a spoken period. > > Please fix this. -- 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.
