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not op but i find idiom or proper nouns can mess things up.
by _jahh 6y ago
not op but i find idiom or proper nouns can mess things up.
- Polylactic_acid 6y agoAnother one is when one language uses a single word for two meanings which the other language has split. An example I cam across is when I translated the word "amber" meaning the orange color and the translation came out the other end as a word that purely means "fossilized sap"
- 082349872349872 6y agoI generally learn proper nouns first (following news is my biggest use of MT) and I've found it often helps to replace them by placeholders such as X and Y when translating. As to sibling comment, IIRC Yandex translate has a nice feature where they'll provide a number of meanings for words when clicked upon in the source text. "Invisible, Insane"