China now the most prolific contributor to physical sciences, engineering, math

Re:China now the most prolific contributor to physical scien... by reacweb on Thursday September 13, 2018 @03:39AM (#17976765)

I always complain about the poor results from google translate between english and french. It works well for litteral translations, but I do not need help for litteral translations. I need help to translate from idioms in a language toward idioms in the other one. I often use https://www.deepl.com/translator which is slightly better than google translate.

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Re:China now the most prolific contributor to physical scien... by JackFr on Thursday September 13, 2018 @12:01PM (#17979635)

I could care less.

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Re:China now the most prolific contributor to physical scien... by JackFr on Thursday September 13, 2018 @10:23PM (#17984288)

Okay down voters, I guess I was being to clever by half.

My point was idiomatic translation is hard. “I could care less” means it’s literal opposite.

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Re:China now the most prolific contributor to physical scien... by beojan on Friday September 14, 2018 @05:13PM (#17991009)

It's an iffy example, since many people consider 'could care less' to be incorrect.

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Re:China now the most prolific contributor to physical scien... by JackFr on Monday September 17, 2018 @11:41AM (#18006939)

But the point is machine translation needs to work on language the way it is, not the way it should be.

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