• Unboxious@ani.social
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    2 months ago

    I assume that if a native English speaker used machine translation to translate something to English and it sounded unnatural they’d correct it, but who knows.

    • KSP Atlas@sopuli.xyz
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      2 months ago

      Google translate can often get things extremely wrong without seeming unnatural (this happens more with minor languages)

      For example, a Scottish Gaelic vulgar term that roughly translates as “fuck you” means “you’re welcome” according to Google translate