Boop, Google Translate is based on what's known as "Statistical Machine Translation". This method sometimes produces wrong results, which are sometimes humorous. For example, Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia, was for some time translated from Slovene as "rape". "Pilipinas" was translated from Tagalog to English as "United States", rather than "Philippines". This is not a prank, it is an error, and the best way to fix it is by clicking "alternate translations" and typing in your correction.
On Jul 9, 6:55 am, Boop wrote: > I'm no computer buff, but Google Translate translated the Swedish word > "Knutby" (a town in Sweden) as "Paris Hilton." This is (clearly) a > wrong translation, and a probable joke. What's the best way to alert > Google? I tried to email them a week ago, but to no avail. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "General" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-translate-general?hl=en.
