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This is verbal spinmeistery. I am very wary of Google Translate, especially given all the hype surrounding it. It is accessible for free to anyone on earth, and will convert text in any of roughly languages into text in any of the others. That is humbling. To a mere pilingual, bailingualism is most impressive. Moreover, if I copy and paste a page of text in Language A into Google Translate, only moments will elapse before I get back a page filled with words in Language B.
And this is happening all the time on screens all over the planet, in dozens of languages. Machine translation has never focused on understanding language. Could an entity, human or machine, do high-quality translation without paying attention to what language is all about? To shed some light on this question, I turn now to the experiments I made. I began my explorations very humbly, using the following short remark, which, in a human mind, evokes a clear scenario:.
In their house, everything comes in pairs.
Dans leur maison, tout vient en paires. The program fell into my trap, not realizing, as any human reader would, that I was describing a couple, stressing that for each item he had, she had a similar one. Next I translated the challenge phrase into French myself, in a way that did preserve the intended meaning.
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Chez eux, ils ont tout en double. At home, they have everything in double.
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There is his own car and his own car, his own towels and his own towels, his own library and his own library. But I still felt I should check the engine out more closely. After all, one swallow does not thirst quench. It describes a group of idealistic Viennese intellectuals in the s and s, who had a major impact on philosophy and science during the rest of the century. By the way, I checked my translation with two native speakers of German, including Karl Sigmund, so I think you can assume it is accurate.
As for female scholars, well, they had no place in the system at all; nothing was clearer than that. And scientists did not question anyway; There were few of them. So far, so good!
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But soon it grows wobbly, and the further down you go the wobblier it gets. The last two sentences really bring out how crucial understanding is for translation. Aside from that blunder, the rest of the final sentence is a disaster.
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Take its first half. It just consists of English words haphazardly triggered by the German words. The translation engine was not imagining large or small amounts or numbers of things. It was just throwing symbols around, without any notion that they might symbolize something. For decades, sophisticated people—even some artificial-intelligence researchers—have fallen for the Eliza effect. Google Translate is all about bypassing or circumventing the act of understanding language. It denotes a profoundly human art form that graciously carries clear ideas in Language A into clear ideas in Language B, and the bridging act not only should maintain clarity, but also should give a sense for the flavor, quirks, and idiosyncrasies of the writing style of the original author.
Whenever I translate, I first read the original text carefully and internalize the ideas as clearly as I can, letting them slosh back and forth in my mind. Needless to say, most of this halo is unconscious. I try to say in Language B what strikes me as a natural B-ish way to talk about the kinds of situations that constitute the halo of meaning in question. I am not , in short, moving straight from words and phrases in Language A to words and phrases in Language B. That said, I turn now to Chinese, a language that gave the deep-learning software a far rougher ride than the two European languages did.
For my test material, I drew from the touching memoir Women Sa We Three , written by the Chinese playwright and translator Yang Jiang, who recently died at Her book recounts the intertwined lives of herself, her husband Qian Zhongshu also a novelist and translator , and their daughter. It is not written in an especially arcane manner, but it uses an educated, lively Chinese. I chose a short passage and let Google Translate loose on it. Here are the results, along with my own translation again vetted by native speakers of Chinese :.
After Zhongshu had worked at Tsinghua University for a year, he was transferred to the committee that was translating selected works of Chairman Mao. He lived in the city, but each weekend he would return to school.
He also was still supervising his graduate students. On the day this appointment was decided, after dinner, an old friend specially hired a rickshaw and came all the way from the city just to congratulate Zhongshu. After our guest had left, Zhongshu turned to me uneasily and said:.
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After a year of work at Tsinghua, he was transferred to the Mao Translating Committee to live in the city and back to school on weekends. He is still a graduate student. Introduction to the book to do this work is Tsinghua students Qiao Guanhua comrades. On the day of the event, after dinner, an old friend hired a rickshaw from the city to congratulate.
Guest to go, the book of fear in the book said to me:. A second oddity is that the first paragraph clearly says that Zhongshu is supervising graduate students, whereas Google Translate turns him into a graduate student. Now I admit that the Chinese phrase was utterly opaque to me. To translate it, I had to find out about something in Chinese culture that I was ignorant of. So where did I turn for help? If you've somehow gotten here without having seen an "Engrish" translation before, then here you go:.
Which is meant to say " When there are thunderstorms, please do not climb the mountain". Bad translations are usually the result of using automated translation apps like Google Translate or Babelfish. I figured that in a few years time these apps will be so good that they won't be able to be used for producing terrible translations, so I made this Engrish generator. Engrish tends to be the most common in East Asian countries, probably because of the huge difference between Asian languages and English in terms of word order, sentence structure, and word meanings. One of the first entrances of Engrish to popular English culture was with the Japanes game " Zerowing " where, at one point, a character remarks " all you base are belong to us ", meaning to say something like "All of your base belongs to us now.
Many of the humorous translations online involve signs, advertisements, items of clothing or restaurant menus. These bad translations fall into two categories:. The latter point is somewhat common in English-speaking countries too where meaningless French phrases are printed on t-shirts, or Japanese and Chinese characters printed on products to give them an "oriental" feeling. In almost all cases, a bad translator was used to generate the text, but the intentions can vary.
The use of different languages in marketing has even prompted studies Engrish-style translations and international marketing.