This one kind of looks like that anyway. You don’t need to put on glasses to see the real Kellyanne Conway.

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Originally shared by Gorgor Gor

Orange Wotsit

An exercise from my daughter’s Japanese class passed through Google Translate.

Professor Yamada: Today. You are Mr. Susan. Are you kinky?

Susan: Yes. My heart is pounding. Thank you for your consideration.

My daughter’s translation:

Professor Yamada: Good afternoon. You’re Susan, right? Are you well?

Susan: Yes, I’m really nervous. Thank you for your consideration.

Despite Google making a big fuss about their machine learning breakthroughs in translation it seems clear that they are still making pretty laughable translations. My daughter points out that translating konnichiwa as “today” is a noob level mistake (in fact most English speakers already know this word).

Sounds like Google needs to start employing some actual language experts because their approach up to now has been to ignore domain specific knowledge and to try to crack this nut in a completely context free manner. That might work well for European to European languages but doesn’t work well at all for more distant ones.