@tezoatlipoca@mas.toOne of the few areas where LLMs are actually useful is in #machinetranslation . But machine #translation is STILL and will - for the time being - always be inferior to human translators.
We have several areas of our app and documentation where there exists the concept of _shifting_ or adjusting,…
@tezoatlipoca@mas.toThat I cannot type `CTRL ' e` and get `é` in this _extremely_ expensive #CAT (Computer Aided #Translation, not feline) tool for Windows and must resort to Windows ALT codes annoys the crap out of me. Like, we pay thousands of dollars for you every year and you can't handle é?
@vrandecic@mas.to"Doom scrolling" heißt auf Deutsch Dummscrollen, and I think that's beautiful.
#linguistics #translation #engdeu
@bogo@hapyyr.comToday one more talk for #FOSDEM was accepted: What translating Thunderbird taught me.
It's in the #translation room at Sunday.
@edintone@mastodon.greenBefore I was on #Mastodon I thought most of the web and social media was in English. Clearly you knew it wasn't like that all. The ease of translating a post on the fly is a revelation / revolution. Thank you #translation
@smurthys@hachyderm.ioAI translation can't get any wronger: The Kannada word "ಪ್ರಾಣಾಂತರ್ಗತ" (ISO prāṇāṁtargata) or the variation ಪ್ರಾಣಾನ್ತರ್ಗತ (prāṇāntargata) actually means "resident in [part of] breath [life]".
1: #fail #AI #translation #Kannada #English #languages #Google
