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Re:GITenberg is an open source community for publishing eboo... by yesenadam on Sunday August 02, 2020 @08:11PM (#24032895)
Looking at Unamuno's Abel Sanchez..

'hermanos' is translated 'brethren' - super-archaic.

p8, 'dedicado' in 'te has dedicado a pintar?' is translated 'hardcore'.

'sí' in 'Que sí, hombre' is translated 'do', as in do-re-mi, I guess.

p5,11-12 has 'quieres/quiero repeatedly translated as "with friends like those who needs enemies". Which is just inexplicable. I can't imagine how that would happen.

Corrupted dictionary?

..and most of the trickiest words on a page aren't translated, maybe because not in your dictionary or they have 'lo' or 'se' appended.

Re:GITenberg is an open source community for publishing eboo... by bilinualcom on Monday August 03, 2020 @06:10AM (#24035945)
Thanks, we are working to improve the quality of both our dictionaries and ML engine. Very hard to answer they the translation picked these and I have to look into each of these individually to answer your questions. The translations are not perfect but it is alive project and I am trying to improve it every hour that I find.

"I can't imagine how that would happen." : Just as a hint, click on "translations" here:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/with_friends_like_these_who_n...

Re:GITenberg is an open source community for publishing eboo... by hombre_fatal on Sunday August 02, 2020 @08:28PM (#24032971)
Yeah, something is going very wrong. As if they were trying to tokenize html/pdf, pulling in a lot of extraneous characters/bytes, and using some sort of homebrew ML project to translate it. I don't know how else you'd get such bizarre results.
Re:GITenberg is an open source community for publishing eboo... by yesenadam on Monday August 03, 2020 @02:18AM (#24034691)
Yes, not to mention that quieres and quiero should be near the top of the Words So Common That No Translation Is Needed list.