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Re:Has Google Translate been fixed yet? by croes on Thursday August 10, 2023 @04:53AM (#37073640)
How many words did you memorize in English? All it's inconsistencies like butcher were the pronunciation isn't recognizable from the spelling.

Is it read or read?

I doubt you can simply map the pronunciation of the chinese spoken languages to the latin alphabet.

And that's only the words, you also need grammar and different languages have tenses that don't even exist in other languages. Just compare Hebrew to English.

After that you need to train a billion people, you still need to conserve the knowledge of language or all the historical written texts are lost.

BTW were I come from it's at least 26 letters.

Re:Has Google Translate been fixed yet? by kwanbix on Thursday August 10, 2023 @05:13AM (#37073777)
But memorizing words is relatively easy. Adding to that the drawing is not. I am not saying it is impossible, it is not obviously. My mother language is Spanish, so I also have 26 letters.
Re:Has Google Translate been fixed yet? by croes on Thursday August 10, 2023 @07:58AM (#37075040)
>林 (lín): This character means “forest” or “woods” and is composed of two 木 (mù) characters side by side. It represents a small forest or a group of trees. 森 (sēn): This character also means “forest” but represents a larger, denser forest than 林 (lín). It is composed of three 木 (mù) characters arranged in a triangle.

That's more logic between the symbols of tree, wood and forrest than between the same english words, and it even looks like some kind of tree.

Spanish has lots of those accent marks, so it's more than 26 letters, it's also accent marks.

Re:Has Google Translate been fixed yet? by kwanbix on Thursday August 10, 2023 @08:46AM (#37075484)
Spanish has accents in the a, e, i, o, u. I never use them, ans is still understandable. If you really believe that writing chinese is easer than writing in Spanish, you are absolutely wrong.
Re:Has Google Translate been fixed yet? by nickitolas on Thursday August 10, 2023 @09:16AM (#37075776)
Speaking as another native spanish speaker, I also basically never use accents. I sometimes add them by applying spellchecker suggestions in formal writing (Work emails, etc) when I see the red squiggles.
Re:Has Google Translate been fixed yet? by croes on Thursday August 10, 2023 @10:05AM (#37076325)
Easy to say if you already are used to one language.

Maybe better to compare it to languages that also use letters to represent words but aren't from the same family.

Maybe Arabic.