Mistaken machine translations of 'ribbit' (2018)

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by mjn • 7 years ago

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ariehkovler• 7 years ago

Animal sounds in different languages are weird in the first place.

Ducks go "Quack" in English, but "Coin" in French (sounds more like "kwan"), "mac" in Romanian and "rap" in Danish.

Horses go "vrink" in Danish and "gnagg" in Swedish.

And as for frogs... https://static.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uuuploads/anim...

seanmcdirmid• 7 years ago

Ducks go gua in Chinese. My bilingual toddler gets confused between English quack and Chinese gua.

smnra• 7 years ago

deepl is much better than Google Translate.

yorwba• 7 years ago

Not in this case. Using "The frog croaks 'ribbit'." as an example sentence [0] with contextual clues, I only got translations that, when translated back, yielded either "rib", "rabbit" or "ribbon".

[0] https://tatoeba.org/eng/sentences/show/7137639

conmarap• 7 years ago

Greek has funny animal noises. Dog: γάβ (yav - but pronounce the y as yearn). Chicken: πάκ πάκ πάκ (pak pak pak). Bird in general: τσίου (tsiou - pronounced kind of like chew).

Mistaken machine translations of 'ribbit' (2018)

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