BrainKing - Forum (Languages)

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Languages

Ask questions or just talk about different languages. Since BrainKing is an international game site supporting many languages, this board can be kind of useful.

Since we will be dealing with pronunciation of words rather than their spelling, I think it's useful to have a link to The sounds of English and the International Phonetic Alphabet.

To see translations of some frequently used phrases and sentences in other languages see Languages

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7. april 2010, 14:37:11

h657

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Can anyone tranlate this for me, please. Ahoj dnes som nabral odvahu a skúsim tento druh šachovej variacie, príjemnú hru. Štefan.

8. april 2010, 00:32:06

Pedro Martínez

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h657: Hey, today I decided to try this chess variant. Enjoy the game. Štefan.

Google Translator sucks.

8. april 2010, 03:26:42

h657

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Pedro Martínez: Thanks Pedro! Yea, you're right, google translator sucks.

8. april 2010, 15:03:33

fukuhara

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Onderwerp: Google Translation

h657: Software translation has its limits particularly between Japanese and English is just terrible it still needs help from human experts.

8. april 2010, 18:47:57

h657

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Onderwerp: Re: Google Translation

fukuhara: Thanks, but I'll keep using google translator for now. Let me know if you found another links worth checking on.

9. april 2010, 11:19:53

puupia

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Onderwerp: Re: Google Translation

fukuhara: Translation Party is a quite amusing application. It translates english phrases into japanese and then back to english. It continues translating between those two languages until it gets same english phrase two times in a row. Phrase in this link is from the description of this board. Experiment with different phrases and you might get some amazing results.

I have very limited knowledge of japanese but i still find this site very good fun. It should be even better if you're fluent in both languages. It really shows how automated translation still has a long way to go.

9. april 2010, 13:52:54

Pedro Martínez

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Onderwerp: Re: Google Translation

puupia: LOL, it's fun indeed. I typed “What the hell are you talking about, moron?” and it ended up with “Do you like silly stories?”

8. april 2010, 08:39:27

aaru

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Pedro Martínez:

8. april 2010, 22:52:11

Milioi

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Pedro Martínez: I agree that Google Translate is not perfect, but it is much better to have translation from there, when you do not understand a word. You can at least find out what the sentence could be about. And anyway the translation wasn't so bad this time, was it?

9. april 2010, 01:57:34

Gouwe gozer

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Aangepast door Gouwe gozer (9. april 2010, 02:54:44)

Milioi: I agree with you

but I started the same discussion a few months ago too and is hopeless in my opinion

Some people here just accept ONLY the most perfect translation and all other translations are wrong, bull or worse

so I didn't reply anymore

I use " http://imtranslator.com/ " and it gives another different translation. But it gives me the idea what way I have to think about a translation, that's important and enough in my opinion

I didn't ask for a perfect line, I asked for a translation, and that's what I receive

It is usefull for me

9. april 2010, 09:39:20

Pedro Martínez

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Aangepast door Pedro Martínez (9. april 2010, 09:40:03)

Milioi, Gouwe gozer: In my opinion, bad translation is always worse than no translation (and the translation of “príjemnú hru” as “enjoyable game” is as bad a translation as one can be). If people want to use Google Translator, so be it, but they should be aware of the fact that they will rarely get a translation of the original sentence, especially in the case of linguistically distant languages.