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Re:How a French scholar was treated at US airport by nom on Monday February 27, 2017 @07:16AM (#13743659)
Wow you are right. Given your example, Google Translate doesn't recognize the gender of the police officer at all. It didn't even get "sens" correct, it translated it to "means" instead of "direction" until I told it the correct translation.
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Re:How a French scholar was treated at US airport by masklinn on Monday February 27, 2017 @07:18AM (#13743667)
> Given your example, Google Translate doesn't recognize the gender of the police officer at all.

Or it did and did not care, "police officer" is a perfectly valid translation for "policière", French is a highly gendered language, English significantly less so.

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