If I try:
add
in Google Translate I get:
ajouter
However If I try:
fake, add, word
I get:
faux, add, mot
Which one is correct? Does Google Translate just suck?
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3 Answers
Definitely a Google Translate things. I've noticed in many cases before how small punctuation changes cause translation to miserably fail or mysteriously change (parentheses seems to be particularly offending to Google Translate).
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Thanks. I found 'fake|add|word' gives the correct translation. So yeah it's the punctuation. Annoying!– BlundellMar 7, 2012 at 22:46
On-line free translators are not good, and it's not just Google translate. There are nowadays some not too bad commercial translation software that possess reasonably satisfying banks of data-memory but little progress has been made on on-line free tools.
The best on-line I would recommend is one that has just been released : the iTranslate4 portal. It is a European project and limited to European languages. I have tested it with various texts (personal and articles from the media) and indeed I have seen a great difference from other existing on-line free tools.
A leaflet with the description of the project.
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> Little progress has been made on on-line free tools. J'aimerais avoir une machine à remonter le temps pour te montrer les résultats que donnait BabelFish il y a dix ans ! Google Translate ne vaut pas un traducteur humain professionnel, mais on ne peut quand même pas s'attendre à ce que l'un des problèmes les plus célèbres de l'intelligence artificielle soit facile à résoudre. Personnellement, je suis étonné par la qualité de Google Translate. Et dire qu'il n'y a pas eu de progrès est tout simplement faux. Mar 11, 2012 at 1:32
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@BrennanVincent: j'ai écrit little progress - et pas no progress-. Et je comparais logiciel du commerce et produits gratuits en ligne. Je n'ai pas comparé logiciel de traduction et traduction "humaine", ce qui n'aurait eu aucun sens !– NoneMar 11, 2012 at 7:20
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Given that I have never heard of add as a French word and that the TLF has no entry for it, I would say that it is indeed an automatic translation failure. It should be 'faux, ajouter, mot'.
