Electromagnetic coil gun seized in Japan

Re:Electromagnetic coil gun seized in Japan by sudhirj on Tuesday November 19, 2024 @09:56AM (#42184090)

“The killing power is the electromagnetic gun, the gun is held by the gun, the gun is held by the gun, and the 29-year-old blunderbuss is used to tolerate the suspect. The Suspicious Person is produced and written by the anime and distributed by the anime and distributed by the public.”

Yeah, we have a long way to go with translations.

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Re:Electromagnetic coil gun seized in Japan by oxyboy on Tuesday November 19, 2024 @10:05AM (#42184177)

Just change the detected source language to Japanese and it will translate a lot better - for some reason it defaults to Chinese as the source language. The person above has posted a wrong translate URL

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Re:Electromagnetic coil gun seized in Japan by mathieuh on Tuesday November 19, 2024 @09:59AM (#42184120)

The built-in translation feature in Google Chrome translated it pretty much perfectly idiomatically for me

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Re:Electromagnetic coil gun seized in Japan by flobosg on Tuesday November 19, 2024 @10:03AM (#42184150)

It seems that Google Translate assumes Chinese as the source language, instead of Japanese.

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Re:Electromagnetic coil gun seized in Japan by dfedbeef on Tuesday November 19, 2024 @09:58AM (#42184103)

I've noticed everything except like... english <-> spanish and english <-> french is absolute dogshit.

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Re:Electromagnetic coil gun seized in Japan by jeroenhd on Tuesday November 19, 2024 @10:02AM (#42184144)

For many languages, the translation matrix doesn't work well directly, so you end up with Japanese -> English -> Spanish when you select Japanese -> Spanish. You lose details at every step, but the end result is still better than the rather unreliable direct translation.

Translations are also a lot better when the languages share more grammar and cultural history. Japanese has grammatical constructs that simply do not exist in English (and vice versa), so providing accurate mapping is an impossible task.

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Re:Electromagnetic coil gun seized in Japan by VyseofArcadia on Tuesday November 19, 2024 @10:06AM (#42184188)

English <-> (insert Germanic or Romance language here) is always pretty solid, but should that be a surprise? This is also the case that is easiest for people.

I wonder if anyone has played around with Language A <-> Common Intermediate Representation <-> Language B. If not, I nominate Lojban for the CIR.

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Re:Electromagnetic coil gun seized in Japan by yapyap on Tuesday November 19, 2024 @10:00AM (#42184136)

how many other languages do you know

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Re:Electromagnetic coil gun seized in Japan by dfedbeef on Tuesday November 19, 2024 @10:02AM (#42184146)

I'm from the US dude I don't even know spanish or french lol

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Re:Electromagnetic coil gun seized in Japan by 15155 on Tuesday November 19, 2024 @12:48PM (#42186215)

https://translate.kagi.com/https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/...

Do we?

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