Comments on: Google Translate Mistakes

By: Clay

Clay — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:46:05 +0000

Great stuff. I was about to say someone should make a website just about computer Japanese translations… but then I saw Chris’ link (http://d.hatena.ne.jp/Ozy/20080916). :)

By: リチャード

リチャード — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 14:35:17 +0000

Hi Harvey -

Long time … Loving the Casio still. You know what is funny about that, … I was playing with the sentence through the link and if you remove the bus passengers バスの乗客に … it gets the negative right, and if you play with the present/past: ない vs なかった, it can bounce back and forth in polarity.

Pretty weird, but being a programmer myself, I am all to aware of the power of the bug.

Cheers (from NYC, Tokyo in 2 weeks again)

Rich

By: hyung lee

hyung lee — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 17:55:50 +0000

Hi,

I am a Chairman of THE EAST Business Newspaper in the UK.
Is there any chance we could publish your articles in our paper and reintroduce them on our website, of course, with your full credit?

Many thanks and kind regards,

Hyung Wook Lee
Chairman / Editor in Chief
MBA(Edin)

THE EAST, The East Asian Monthly Business Newspaper,
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Tel : + 44 (0) 7912 608 321 / Web site: http://www.theeast.org / E mail : info@theeast.org
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By: Bri

Bri — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 00:37:57 +0000

It doesn’t help that people can submit “corrections” to incorrect translations of words and phrases when you use google to translate a website. I once tried to translate a singer’s page. It translated her name as “TLC” and her song as “No Scrubs”! When you use google, artists turn into other artists!

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 10:00:31 +0000

Hi Harvey,

Google Translate is notoriously bad for Japanese. At this stage, it seems that Infoseek and Excite are much better.