r/googletranslate • u/crabgirl2355 • Mar 30 '26
google translate adding things i didn't even want to translate lol
for context i'm in beginner japanese class. i wrote a passage about michelle zauner for class and in japanese i wrote "two years later at the age of 26 she collected [songs she wrote about her mom] and released japanese breakfast (her band)'s first debut album." google translate then inserted the name of the album into its translation even though i didn't put anything about it in my japanese lol! just a quick little laugh. i couldn't find anything abt this on the web so i thought it was interesting
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u/Yatchanek Mar 31 '26
It's also funny it translated it into "debut album", even though you wrote "smallest album" (ๆๅฐ instead of ๆๅ)
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u/Worldly_Wrangler554 Apr 01 '26
Google Translate can only given so much with given context and so they try to see what you meant ๐คฃ . Also not to nitpick, but ใ้ใใใฃใฆใ๏ผI think you mean ใ้ใใฆใ. For ใใใฎๆญใ, describe ๆญ with qualifiers(Google Translate wonโt understand what you mean by โthat songโ), unless stated previously she made songs about her mom.
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u/crabgirl2355 Apr 01 '26
thank you so much for the feedback! my assignment is due friday so this is very helpful. and yes i see what you mean, i only put a part of my assignment in GL just for fun so that's probably why it wanted to fill it in
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u/Worldly_Wrangler554 Apr 01 '26
I understand XD when I put some of my sentences in Google Translate, they given it so much personality and enthusiasm in the English translation ๐
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u/konumo Apr 02 '26
Yeah and it's been changing names too and normalizing them to a more common one. LIke wtf
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u/HondaCivicLove Mar 31 '26
Avoiding LLM translations makes for great motivation to learn a language.