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Re:Gemini Ultra now available in Google Bard by cflewis on Thursday February 08, 2024 @02:37PM (#39306550)
Gemini is Latin, my guess is it more easily translates to other languages than Bard.
Re:Gemini Ultra now available in Google Bard by LukaszWiktor on Thursday February 08, 2024 @02:44PM (#39306645)
Who translates product names?
Re:Gemini Ultra now available in Google Bard by pbhjpbhj on Thursday February 08, 2024 @03:45PM (#39307452)
"How does that translate to ..." means "how well does that work in" some other area or context; more analogous to a mathematical translation than a linguistic translation.

Just a confusing turn of phrase. They almost certainly didn't mean "what does that translate to ..." in another language.

Harmonising product names across regions is hard: Jif was a bathroom cleaning solution in the UK, but it's name was changed to Cif to match the name elsewhere in Europe; and that name sounds silly to UK ears. Meanwhile GIF were always presumed to be pronounced like "gift" (a present) without the final T; but we learnt the creators preferred "Jif" which sounds silly to UK ears because it sounds like a cleaning product! (And also wasn't JIF already a file extension (JPEG Interchange Format).

Anyway ... language is hard.

Re:Gemini Ultra now available in Google Bard by gnicholas on Thursday February 08, 2024 @03:56PM (#39307578)
> Jif was a bathroom cleaning solution in the UK

One man's bathroom cleaning solution is another man's creamy peanut butter.

Re:Gemini Ultra now available in Google Bard by svat on Thursday February 08, 2024 @06:58PM (#39309511)
“a floor wax and a dessert topping.”
Re:Gemini Ultra now available in Google Bard by epcoa on Thursday February 08, 2024 @07:54PM (#39309993)
One man’s creamy peanut butter is another man’s crunchy peanut butter.
Re:Gemini Ultra now available in Google Bard by gnicholas on Thursday February 08, 2024 @02:54PM (#39306765)
I think the suggestion was that it would work well as-is in other languages. It would certainly be natural in romance languages.
Re:Gemini Ultra now available in Google Bard by Rexxar on Thursday February 08, 2024 @08:43PM (#39310413)
Re:Gemini Ultra now available in Google Bard by int_19h on Saturday February 10, 2024 @12:52AM (#39323962)
It really depends. Some languages don't use "special" words for astrological signs, so it's literally the same word as "twins". Which is a really weird name for a product.