Comments on: Another Reason Not to Use Online Translators

By: Tofugu_Erin

Tofugu_Erin — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 07:40:55 +0000

Definitely. Unfortunately, online translators aren't great with context or connotation, haha. Ah well, at least they're entertaining.

By: Ku

Ku — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 06:16:06 +0000

Wouldn't 「ぜったいおこるぞ」be closest to the actual sentiment...?

(Just sayin'.)

Hilarious either way. Fukudome likely has a good laugh every time he looks into the stands.

By: Tofugu_Erin

Tofugu_Erin — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:40:55 +0000

Definitely. Unfortunately, online translators aren’t great with context or connotation, haha. Ah well, at least they’re entertaining.

By: Ku

Ku — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 23:16:06 +0000

Wouldn’t 「ぜったいおこるぞ」be closest to the actual sentiment…?

(Just sayin’.)

Hilarious either way. Fukudome likely has a good laugh every time he looks into the stands.

By: Tofugu_Erin

Tofugu_Erin — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:00:39 +0000

Just so you know… I wrote this article.

Haha.

At any rate, I’ve seen that picture before. Pretty funny :D

By: Stephen

Stephen — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:51:37 +0000

Not sure if you saw this, Koichi…a little crude, but another example of why one shouldn’t use translation tools! http://www.shipmentoffail.com/fails/2008/05/tra…

By: Eevee

Eevee — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 20:31:33 +0000

Ahhh… If only they did work. We all gotta dream, right?

I’ll never forget… halfway through the school year almost my entire French class had used an online translator for their left-to-the-last-minute homework (or more correctly, a few people had and the rest of them copied those people) and it was very apparent to our poor teacher by the time we had marked about half of the assignment. He asked about 5 different people for one sentence and it was all crap. He ended up yelling at us, storming out, and slamming the door behind him. We all sat their in silence for a few minutes and he came back with his tea, sat down, and looked at us. The rest of the period went that way. Never happened again, I gotta hand it to that guy, he knows how to scare high school kids. xD

By: Ruka

Ruka — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 19:12:15 +0000

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By: YoyoKirby

YoyoKirby — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 02:44:57 +0000

Wow… That’s pretty o/pwned.

By: John T

John T — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:04:37 +0000

Online translation (or machine translation) almost never works in Japanese. Verb tense is emdedded in the word. So in English “I don’t go” it’s easy to translate those three words. In Japanese the subject is almost always elminated if it is obvious so “I don’t go” would look like “godon’t”. Most translation machines see the “go” but don’t conjugate the rest. So if your friend is telling you she isn’t coming to America, your machine translator might make you think she is.