[PLUG-TALK] Huh? Did he really say that?

Vedanta Teacher orevedantateacher at gmail.com
Thu Sep 22 23:46:31 UTC 2016


Yikes! That reminds me of reading things transliterated
out of Sanskrit by someone who has English as a second
language. It can make for thick reading...

Blessings,
Paul W.

On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 1:48 PM, Keith Lofstrom <keithl at kl-ic.com> wrote:

> > "Keith" == Keith Lofstrom <keithl at kl-ic.com> writes:
> Keith> The article says that short words are the same in many
> Keith> languages because of parsimony.  OTOH, my favorite long
> Keith> word, antidisestablishmentarianism, translates into
> Keith> antidisestablishmentarianism in 96 out of 103 languages
> Keith> by google translate, that always-perfect font of wisdom.
>
> Keith> The exceptions are Bulgarian, Chinese, French (of
> Keith> course), Japanese, Telegu, Turkish, and my favorite
> Keith> exception, Hebrew ( יא יטנא ).
>
> Keith> Perhaps someone can pronounce that for me.
> Keith> I can't even guess how many syllables that is.
>
> On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 11:57:15PM -0700, Russell Senior wrote:
> > Google Translate will generally vocalize it for you if you push the
> right button.
>
> Google Translate will vocalize other languages for me,
> but not Hebrew.  Not surprising given the lack of vowels
> in classical written Hebrew.  I cut-and-pasted the Hebrew
> script back into another Google Translate instance.
> While it did not provide a sound button for the source
> box either, it translated ( יא יטנא ) as "anti-island".
>
> So.  A pair of nice Jewish boys start a company whose
> computers cannot translate Hebrew.  Oy vey! (yiddish)
> Don't expect Google to roll out a "Google Rabbi" product
> any time soon, a job presumably safe from automation :-)
> Which is good, because "Google Mohel" and "Google
> Shochet" are just plain frightening.  :-(  :-(  :-(
>
> Keith
>
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