Machine Translation

[hennaz]

Machine translations are crap, and do not work with most languages. You may get a good translation, but when you translate it back to English, it will not look right. It tried it with German before and the translation was poor.

[MMM]

OT but at least where I live when people say "queer as a three-dollar bill" they mean "gay".

Machine translations in Japanese do not work. If they did I wouldn't have a job.

[chryuop]

Originally Posted by RadioKid

青白いイデアがない: Does this mean "Absent of Pale idea" in English?

Well translated literally from Italian would be: "I don't have the palest idea", but just for the 2 cents saying, I don't have a clue about why is it like that

[filiadragongurl]

Originally Posted by chryuop

Well translated literally from Italian would be: "I don't have the palest idea", but just for the 2 cents saying, I don't have a clue about why is it like that

So... "I don't have the faintest idea" then?

[chryuop]

Originally Posted by filiadragongurl

So... "I don't have the faintest idea" then?

Yea...I guess if we dig deep we might find a similar Japanese one too

[KyleGoetz]

Yeah, we do have a few non-standard accents down here. I speak usually with a nearly flawless Standard American English accent (basically how newsmen used to speak in the 50s). It's the "normal" accent.

However, my native accent is something like a southeast Texan. There's also an East Texas accent that I cannot imitate no matter how hard I try, and perhaps something like a West Texan accent, although I've never even been to West Texas (except for a couple hours on my way to New Mexico), so I'm not an authority on West Texas.

Heck, my Texan accent might be more "central Texan." I don't think there's really a difference in accent between those in San Antonio or the country folk near Austin and New Braunfels and those of my hometown (Victoria, near the coast).

But there's a significant difference between the way people there talk and the way people in Tyler talk.

[komitsuki]

Originally Posted by KyleGoetz

Yeah, we do have a few non-standard accents down here. I speak usually with a nearly flawless Standard American English accent (basically how newsmen used to speak in the 50s). It's the "normal" accent.

However, my native accent is something like a southeast Texan. There's also an East Texas accent that I cannot imitate no matter how hard I try, and perhaps something like a West Texan accent, although I've never even been to West Texas (except for a couple hours on my way to New Mexico), so I'm not an authority on West Texas.

Heck, my Texan accent might be more "central Texan." I don't think there's really a difference in accent between those in San Antonio or the country folk near Austin and New Braunfels and those of my hometown (Victoria, near the coast).

But there's a significant difference between the way people there talk and the way people in Tyler talk.

We're talking about text translation. Not about vocal accents.