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Re:HK social media users writing phonetically spelled posts ... by s_Hogg on Sunday August 18, 2019 @01:16AM (#20728382)
Yeah, I just tried it and didn't know which characters to pick after the initial "heung gong" in "heung gong ya gan yau". So even if it doesn't actually break automatic translation, it does break the user like you say :)
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Re:HK social media users writing phonetically spelled posts ... by throwawy123 on Sunday August 18, 2019 @01:18AM (#20728392)
You also might try Bing Translate, which actually has Cantonese translation. Google Translate can take Cantonese input, but since it's really just a Mandarin translation engine, it won't correctly interpret Cantonese words and grammar.
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Re:HK social media users writing phonetically spelled posts ... by s_Hogg on Sunday August 18, 2019 @01:22AM (#20728402)
Hmm, at your suggestion I've just tried Bing and it doesn't seem to know what to do with the Romanisation? Interesting to know that Bing explicitly has Cantonese translation catered for but Google doesn't. Wonder why that is?

The step that's missing for me is how to turn the Romanisation into Chinese characters.

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