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I love/hate how Google translate assumes "Anh" means "brother" or "em" means "girl". This confusion has resulted in Vietnamese people unintentionally describin
by itake 14d ago
I love/hate how Google translate assumes "Anh" means "brother" or "em" means "girl".
This confusion has resulted in Vietnamese people unintentionally describing incest or gay relationships.
[0] - What she actually meant was "brother" in the sense that he is a family friend and neighbor.
- realusername 14d agoYes that's also one of the historical struggles of Google Translate, the pronouns are context based and so are the words, you need experience to know when they start and end. It's a miserable experience for translation software.
- alephnerd 13d agoYou got downvoted but I know what you are talking about, but there were other ways to write that sentence. Basically what OP is saying is interpersonal relations can be confused when using the Vietnamese and English definitions of both words. Anh and Em essentially means masculine and feminine, but is also often used in romantic, non-romantic, casual, and sometimes formal usecases and this is heavily dependent on the verbs and adjectives that follow. Viet-English NMT is very flawed at the moment.