Sunday, July 01, 2007
Over the past few weeks, I've had the pleasure of chatting with a young lady from China. I mentioned this a couple of posts back, I think.Now, conversations with her have been somewhat problematic, as I don't speak chinese, and she doesn't speak english.
To get around this, she has been using your fairly typical, and unreliable, online translation tool.
Anyways, I'd been aware that google has the facility to translate chinese to english, and back, but have been unable to make use of it, as my pc would't display the chinese character set.
So tonight, after a little tinkering, I enabled chinese characters on my pc, and next time we chat, we'll see if google translation is any better than her tool.
If nothing else, it should be a giggle for her to see me typing jibberish in her language for a change.
Additional...
So I was testing the google translation tool with my usual method, take a line of english, translate into whatever, and then back to english.
The line I translated to chinese was "Once upon a time there were three bears. Mummy bear, daddy bear, and baby bear."
Now I don't know if the errors are in translating to chinese, or back to english, but the final result is quite an eye opener.
"Had in a long time ago, a total of three parties. Her father bears the responsibility and bear the baby"
I suspect much amusement and confusion will be the order of the day.
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Steve 5:28 AM [+]
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