Subj : Languages
To   : Gleb Hlebov
From : Ed Vance
Date : Thu Jan 23 2025 20:53:12


> Hi Ed,

> Wed 22 Jan 2025 at 23:44, you wrote to All:

> Humans are "unreliable narrators", of sorts.
> You would expect the same "faulty phone line" effect if you decided to feed
> it into an online translator, like Google, some 15-20 years ago. However,
> today's Google translation algorithms are so advanced and precise it's scary.
> :-)

> ======
> - Do you see yonder cloud that's almost in shape of a camel?
> - By the mass, and 'tis like a camel, indeed.
> - Methinks it is like a weasel.
> - It is backed like a weasel.
> - Or like a whale?
> - Very like a whale.

> GT translation chain: English - Russian - Italian - German - Turkish - Polish
> - English, and here's the result:

> - Do you see that the cloud is almost a camel?
> - For fair and really like a camel.
> - Metts is like love.
> - He is supported as love.
> - Is it like a whale?
> - Like a whale.
> ======

> I can see how "weasel" turned into "love" at some point because of the
> ambiguous Russian translation of the word, but all in all, really good job!

> ... Error #030: SysOp is out of beer
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Re: people being narrators 

When I was working at a 600' Lock on the Ohio River deckhands on the tows would
sometimes tell me a joke, and if I thought it was real good I would tell it to
other deckhands as other tows came through the Lock.

After telling it 3 or 4 times I would finally tell the joke as well as I heard
it told to me.
Ed
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