Google translate will ensure you fail in Latin

[Dantius]

With well-recognized quotes that have translations available pretty much everywhere, Google Translate will do fine because it probably just has them in a database. But it won't be able to do anything that's not a very famous quote.

 

[cinefactus]

No, it hasn't got any better...

 

[Pacifica]

Well, decorum can mean "handsome", if applied to a man, but of course that won't always be the appropriate translation, and the machine, being unable to analyse context as a human would, will just often fail to adjust its translation to the context, as in the case of dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.

 

[Glabrigausapes]

It's also a little unfair to enter a derived term (< decorus). I don't think anyone uses das Googlor as a morphological reference.

 

[cinefactus]

I don't think anyone uses das Googlor as a morphological reference.

I think you would be surprised by how much faith people put in it—or maybe you wouldn't

 

[Iohannes Aurum]

I think you would be surprised by how much faith people put in it—or maybe you wouldn't

I cringe almost every time I see a tattoo in either any non-modern language or a modern language that doesn't use the Latin alphabet.

Most of the time, they're incorrect.

If those have a correct translation, I would praise them for doing the research.

 

[joz]

There are good news and there are bad news with Google Translate being available in Latin.

The good news: It is a major improvement over InterTran.

The bad news: It is still hopeless.

Read it here: http://www.thestar.com/business/article/868886--et-nunc-googlus-defero-latinum

Interesting

 

[Pacifica]

This isn't in Latin, but still demonstrates the ineptitude of Google Translate in a funny way.

 

[Jiacheng Liu]

Simply ridiculous...

 

[Pacifica]

 

[Glabrigausapes]

Have your system set to Spanish, hey, overachiever?!
¿Qué piensas, güey?

 

[Caleb Lewis]

So, are there any good online Latin translators, for us self-teaching folk? :laugh:

 

[Callaina]

Sure there are, and you've come to the right place to find them.

 

[Callaina]

If you mean automatic translators, though, no.

 

[Dantius]

At 0:31 in this trailer, they use Google Translate to translate Latin. The Latin itself is a bit incorrect, but Google translates it correctly. Strangely, this is a phrase that Google actually does seem to get right (or as right as possible given the bad grammar) in real life.

 

[Callaina]

You'd think that with the sorts of budgets available for such films, they could have actually checked with a Latinist to make sure that the Latin says what they wanted it to say.

I have to wonder whether they used some translation software (not GT, though, because it gives a different output) to do the initial translation from English to Latin.

 

[Pacifica]

The Latin seems like it could be the output of a human being with some Latin notions though not enough to handle appositions properly.

 

[Callaina]

with some Latin notions

LOL, I like this phrase

 

[Pacifica]

What's special (or wrong) about it?

 

[Callaina]

Not sure exactly. It just seems like a sort of cute/diplomatic way of saying "very basic/mediocre knowledge".