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Comment: Re:Have to agree (Score 1) 178

by Deflagro (#31155780) Attached to: Google Shooting For Smartphone Universal Translator

haha it's all good. It's just fun talking with other language nerds. I speak a few of each type, latin/cyrillic/arabic, etc :P

I still don't have much confidence in AI getting the more subtle feelings of languages. Google translator is the best, granted. It fails horribly with german and swedish tho heh

Comment: Have to agree (Score 1) 178

by Deflagro (#31066186) Attached to: Google Shooting For Smartphone Universal Translator

with everyone else... Google isn't great at translating and sadly it's pretty much the best. I speak a myriad of languages and Google only does well with Latin based langs and only if they are grammatically perfect.
You could always figure it out by context but when you get to German or Russian, then you're in trouble. Hell, imagine Mandarin/Cantonese? Pretty soon though, everyone will be able to understand everyone else and I won't be as cool anymore :)

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