Google translator.
Has anyone else tried the new translator that got attached to Google Chrome?
I'm having the greatest fun with this. Not only does it translate everything word by word, ignoring sentence structures entirely, but it's Estonian gets occasionally confused with Finnish. Not to mention the words that can be translated in several different ways. And the words that didn't get translated at all.
I had it translate my journal into Estonian and I haven't been able to stop laughing since. It sounds as it's been written by someone who has only just begun to learn the language.
Most amusing bits:
It translates my 'nature' tag as temperament, rather than the outside world
Word 'duty' as customs duty, instead of chore
'character' is letter, instead of person
'beading' is profiling
'sleeping' is sleeping bag
'unrelated' is independent
'a' is one-time
'collapse' is lay off
'chair' is chairman
'expansion pack' is parliament
'quote' is price offering
'channeling' is chicken (I know, WTF!?)
In complete WTF!! side of things:
my 'whine' tag turned into kimahdella
'whoosh' is suhahtaa
'madder' is värimatara
'set' is määrittäessäni
'dispose' is haravointi
'sparkle' is kimaltelee
That's not even Finnish!
Also it translates Transformers as trafo, which I think is a car part. And it can translate 'fuck', but not 'barking'.
So yeah.
EDIT: I just translated this post and it was even more lulzworthy. Also, it still doesn't translate 'barking', but translated 'fuck' into a different profanity.
I'm having the greatest fun with this. Not only does it translate everything word by word, ignoring sentence structures entirely, but it's Estonian gets occasionally confused with Finnish. Not to mention the words that can be translated in several different ways. And the words that didn't get translated at all.
I had it translate my journal into Estonian and I haven't been able to stop laughing since. It sounds as it's been written by someone who has only just begun to learn the language.
Most amusing bits:
It translates my 'nature' tag as temperament, rather than the outside world
Word 'duty' as customs duty, instead of chore
'character' is letter, instead of person
'beading' is profiling
'sleeping' is sleeping bag
'unrelated' is independent
'a' is one-time
'collapse' is lay off
'chair' is chairman
'expansion pack' is parliament
'quote' is price offering
'channeling' is chicken (I know, WTF!?)
In complete WTF!! side of things:
my 'whine' tag turned into kimahdella
'whoosh' is suhahtaa
'madder' is värimatara
'set' is määrittäessäni
'dispose' is haravointi
'sparkle' is kimaltelee
That's not even Finnish!
Also it translates Transformers as trafo, which I think is a car part. And it can translate 'fuck', but not 'barking'.
So yeah.
EDIT: I just translated this post and it was even more lulzworthy. Also, it still doesn't translate 'barking', but translated 'fuck' into a different profanity.