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Postby Charles » Mon Dec 10, 2007 7:00 am

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A cunning linguist describes how faulty translation software has lead to the ubiquitous mistranslation of "Fuck" into everyday Chinese signs. I thought this might be of interest to those of us who work with machine translation software.

Via the ever-amusing MeFi as usual.
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Postby succubusqueen » Mon Dec 10, 2007 7:51 am

That's fucked up!:p
(write something smart here):cool:
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Postby Greji » Mon Dec 10, 2007 9:58 am

succubusqueen wrote:That's fucked up!:p

Not really! The Chinese have always had a nice approach to popular topics!
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Postby dimwit » Wed Dec 12, 2007 12:08 pm

Dunno if it is a mistranslation or a level of rudeness thing. A merchant in Hong Kong who doesn't have Fuck in his vocabulary needs to hone up on his English language skills.
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Postby Mulboyne » Sat Jul 26, 2008 8:23 pm

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