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rumschlumpel@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Unboxious@ani.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I assume those are mostly done by people for whom English is not their first language.

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  • BananaIsABerry@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Or are using machine translation. Some translations even get translated from other, none Japanese versions to English so you even further lose some of the og.

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    • Unboxious@ani.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I assume that if a native English speaker used machine translation to translate something to English and it sounded unnatural they’d correct it, but who knows.

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      • KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Google translate can often get things extremely wrong without seeming unnatural (this happens more with minor languages)

        For example, a Scottish Gaelic vulgar term that roughly translates as “fuck you” means “you’re welcome” according to Google translate

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    • raman_klogius@ani.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Reliving the Bible experience with each new chapter.

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      The Bible is famously a translation of a translation of a translation, with a lot of scribal commentary and interpretation becoming word of god in the process.

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  • rumschlumpel@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    English is not my first language, either …

    Though it’s not like I’m putting in the work to translate anything myself, so IDK if I should complain that much.

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