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Re:Has Google Translate been fixed yet? by keepamovin on Thursday August 10, 2023 @06:10AM (#37074107)
Do you work for Google Taiwan?

I think this pales in comparison to how you can't translate from or into Cantonese!

This is an unexpectedly hot thread, I probably shouldn't have waded into it.

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Re:Has Google Translate been fixed yet? by raincole on Thursday August 10, 2023 @06:26AM (#37074226)
> Do you work for Google Taiwan?

I have friends who work there, but afaik they all work(ed) for Chromebook-related projects. I'm not even sure if anyone in Google Taiwan is in charge of Google Translation.

> I think this pales in comparison to how you can't translate from or into Cantonese!

I agree. It doesn't translate from or into Taiwanese(Taigi) either tho.

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Re:Has Google Translate been fixed yet? by keepamovin on Thursday August 10, 2023 @06:28AM (#37074240)
Yeah that sucks. Isn't that related to (or the same as) Hakkawa?
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Re:Has Google Translate been fixed yet? by raincole on Thursday August 10, 2023 @06:30AM (#37074261)
Hakka is yet another language. Yeah there are so many "Chinese" languages...
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Re:Has Google Translate been fixed yet? by keepamovin on Thursday August 10, 2023 @10:44AM (#37076803)
Oh, right...Taiwanese is actually Fujianese/Fokkienese right? Or are there differences?

SO MANY...ugh...despite the best efforts of the Mandarins

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