How good is Google Translator?

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I was in the mood trying the Google translator and made a test with Henriksson. This is what I wrote in his language Swedish

(Hi,Henriksson, Thank you for description! How are you today, good? I saw a video of you on YouTube today. Why not making a new video with your cats?

Henriksson replied:




And here is my reply to that:

Hej, jag är bra. Solen skiner, men jag är irriterad av den ständiga förseningar i min nästa video på YouTube. Men om jag slutar prata här så kommer det att dyka upp snabbare. Jag skulle definitivt vara intresserad av din katt video

I originally typed in like this:

Hiya, I am fine. The sun is shining, but I am annoyed of the constant delay of my next video to YouTube. But if I stop talking here then it will turn up faster. I would definitely be interested in your cat video

Whats my point with all this then?? To find out how good Google can translate. My experience of online translators is that they are stupid and cant translate properly.....
But its probably just my english that sucks from the begining translating it as crap, because I didnt type in the "the" giving the wrong translation of "description" for example...

Anyway, this was just another useless thread of mine and probably waste of time and space of WP....

*topic is likely to be dead within only hours, use to be like that with threads of xalepax and me killing them only by returning*

I have found that Google Translate has a 90% accuracy rate at giving an exact translation. What it is really helpful to me, is the autodetect option.

BableFish seems to be much more accurate, and they have been around for quite some time, though you must be certain of the exact language to be translated.

When I require an exact translation, I will run it through both.

oh, DaWalker!
Somebody actually replied this thread and it was a good reply. Thanks for your input!
I have sent an PM to a moderator to delete this thread as I thought it was waste of space for this poor massive big forum....
But maybe not before Henriksson at least have seen it....

It might come in handy for some of our world wide domination promotions.

Truth is, I only speak one language....kinda sorta.

Yet there are many who speak many.

Me...I'm just a mini

Hm, I'll answer this in a "Google Translation" way

(This is what I originally typed) - In my opinion, Google tranalate is probably one of the best translation websites on the internet. But there some other websites like Babelfish that are good, and find this website useful too. - http://www.tranexp.com/win/itserver.htm

(This is what it is in Swedish) - Enligt min mening är Google tranalate förmodligen en av de bästa översättningen webbplatser på Internet. Men det finns några andra webbplatser som Babelfish som är bra, och hitta denna webbplats användbar också. - Http://www.tranexp.com/win/itserver.htm

(This is Google Translation's literal translation) - In my opinion, Google Translate probably one of the best translation sites on the Internet. But there are some other sites that Babel Fish is good, and find this site useful as well. - Http: / / www.tranexp.com / win / itserver.htm

well it sucks when translating to and from Slavic languages. big time.

"hej" isnt wrong

"tjena" is a slang. i think google translator is good for letters and stuff, but i cringe when people happily suggest i submit my entire novel there, for an "autotranslation"

my god.,...

*cringes*

lol I doubt anyone would publish that :p

seriously, nothing can mimic real human translation and I doubt it ever will.

1st of all, i have an average of 1 invented word per page its a sci-fi, and norwegian is a language where you can create new words.
a man who eats teeth: teeth-eater <--- 2 words. in norwegian: "tanneter" <--- 1 word. new word! spellcheck checks it as wrong
imagine all those
through the autocorrect. lots of sci-fi invented lingo and stuff

^^yeah it's the same in Swedish. I love this wordbuliding thing in it, you can really go creative :p

german too all germanic, except for english i think.

høyesterettsjustitiarius is the most famous long word in norway
but there are longer words that have been used

fun fact:

llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch

that's the longest word in the world (Welsh). it's actually a name of a town in Wales:

I have noticed that norwegian is in some way a bit similiar to german, the way of pronouncing, germans speak both french and rolling "R", many of the german words seem like half-complete norwegian ones and opposite, They say "Ja and "Nein" in german while we say "Ja" but >>>NEI<<< in norway, we also say "du" which means you, so if a german passed by me talking to one of my friends, he could maybe think i was german, when i SUDDENLY talked pure 100% norwegian

OOO-MMM-GGG!! !! !!

That is truly AMAAAAAAAAZING!! ! I didnt believe it at all when I saw this post, because it was too incredible to be true but I googled it and it IS really true, WOW!!

How many letters is that? and how on earth is it pronounced?! ! It honestly looks like a cat have walked the keyboard and typed some random letters!!



ZEGH8578 & bdhkhsfgk:

Så la oss prøve språket ditt deretter. Jeg skal ærlig si noe virkelig gale og gjøre den oversette det enda galere men jeg liksom mangler ideer for øyeblikket ...

^LOL!! that looks hilarious only that!!^

did you enter "wrong" or "crazy"?
the translation is using an ambigious word "gal" that can mean both "wrong" and "crazy", otherwise it looks okay, apart from a sortof androidic life-devoid staccato syntax

I entered it like this:

So let us try your language then. I should honestly say something really crazy and make it translate it even crazier but I somehow lack ideas at the moment...


that turned out like this in Norway language (pasted it in here as we swopped pages)

Så la oss prøve språket ditt deretter. Jeg skal ærlig si noe virkelig gale og gjøre den oversette det enda galere men jeg liksom mangler ideer for øyeblikket ...

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