@timtfj.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyIf you wonder why I call it that: I used #GoogleGarble just now to check something in someone's #Danish bio. It translated their pronouns, "hun/hende", as "her/him". Given that in #Norwegian "hun" means "she" and "henne" means her, even I can tell that this might not be *quite* correct . . . ! […]
@timtfj.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyNettopp ønsket å sjekke noe i noens danske bio. Heldigvis var dette ikke pronomenene deres: #GoogleGarble oversatte "hun/hende" på dansk som "her/him" på engelsk! Til og med jeg vet det er i det minste mulig at "hende" på dansk og "henne" på norsk er samme . . .
(Og dette er hvorfor jeg kaller […]
@timtfj.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyWell that's impressive. The Translate function has just translated "helt kromulende ord" as "perfectly cromulent words", which is precisely what I intended it to mean. #GoogleGarble just makes wild guesses like "cognate" and "different".
@timtfj.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyRE: https://mastodon.matthewmcvickar.com/@obliquestions/117304863079175044
For #translation into whatever #language you're learning.
Then try a version beginning "In view of what they would have been going to see, would they still have wished . . . "
Finally, feed them into #GoogleGarble and […]
@timtfj.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy(DeepL and #GoogleGarble both utterly fail to translate this. "Trettende" does not always mean "thirteenth", and "uten at" does not mean "since".)