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2024-07-15 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Ukrainian Perspective: Invasion of Ukraine: July 14, 2024

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Posted by badanov 2024-07-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ] Top

#1 " The Russian pilot in the video claims that "it is difficult to imagine a target that could not be hit with an aerial bomb of such a nominal mass."

Illustrating the perils of google translate

Posted by Lord Garth 2024-07-15 09:30|| 2024-07-15 09:30|| Front Page Top

#2 "it is difficult to imagine a target that could not be hit with an aerial bomb of such a nominal mass."

If you change the target language from English to Hillbilly, you get "Woo Doggies! We done blowed that sumbitch up good." which I suspect is closer to the original intent.

Translation is a challenging problem. Even simple declarative sentences can have layers of meaning, like when your wife says, "That's nice! You just keep on doing that."

Still, we have come a long way from the early days of machine translation where the phrase "The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak" came out as "The wine is good, but the meat is spoiled".

Posted by SteveS 2024-07-15 09:51|| 2024-07-15 09:51|| Front Page Top

#3 ^^ The translation made sense to me.

Posted by badanov 2024-07-15 10:01|| 2024-07-15 10:01|| Front Page Top

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