Re:Show HN: Phrasing – learn every language, to any level
by barrell on Monday January 29, 2024 @11:30AM
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I believe that came from the official translation for paul graham's essay, but their site is down now and I can't confirm: https://penelope.jdsfriends.com/DWYL_francais.htm
Not saying it's correct, but it's definitely only going to be as good as it's inputs. If we gave it a bad translation, that's on us! Sorry
Re:Show HN: Phrasing – learn every language, to any level
by vintermann on Monday January 29, 2024 @11:34AM
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If you do any sort of automatic attempts to discover parallel texts (and I can't understand how you can support "any show" otherwise), you're going to run into the problem of terrible translations, most of them made with machines.
Re:Show HN: Phrasing – learn every language, to any level
by addandsubtract on Monday January 29, 2024 @12:45PM
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You're also going to get figurative translations instead of literal ones.
Re:Show HN: Phrasing – learn every language, to any level
by aconst on Monday January 29, 2024 @11:57AM
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Sorry, I had not seen the english version it was the translation for. Both French and English version look awkward, they must be read in context ^^;
Re:Show HN: Phrasing – learn every language, to any level
by zansara on Monday January 29, 2024 @11:34AM
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I'm learning French too but I can't see the mistakes you're pointing out... What would be the correct sentence?
"Toujours produire" découvrira le métier de ta vie de la même façon que l'eau, aidée par la gravité, trouve le trou dans ton toit.
If you replace the first two words by "tu", and correct a minor mistake in the third one (add a "s" at the end), it has a meaning but otherwise not. I guess we cannot trust it to learn a language then.