{"id":8510,"date":"2017-08-12T09:47:32","date_gmt":"2017-08-12T13:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=8510"},"modified":"2018-03-25T08:55:21","modified_gmt":"2018-03-25T12:55:21","slug":"fried-chicken-kitty-supply","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=8510","title":{"rendered":"Fried chicken kitty-supply"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Machine translation still leaves a lot to be desired.<\/p>\n<p>I was watching a cute YouTube video this morning, about a tiny kitten kept warm by a chicken.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1em;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fhD__eJ_UVw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The title of the video was in Spanish. My Spanish being nonexistent (in fact, at first I thought the title was in Italian) I used Google Translate. When I used Google Translate most recently, I was tranlating something into Hungarian, so that was the default target language. And Google dutifully translated the sentence, &#8220;gallina cuida gatito del fri\u00f3&#8221;, into &#8220;S\u00fclt csirke cica-ell\u00e1t\u00e1s&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Which means, literally, &#8220;Fried chicken kitty-supply&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Not sure how Google managed to produce this gem of a translation. It offers a reasonably decent English translation: &#8220;Hen cares cold kitty&#8221;. But the French (&#8220;soins chaton de poulet frit&#8221; &#8211; &#8220;kitten care by fried chicken&#8221;) and German (&#8220;gebratenes Huhn K\u00e4tzchen Pflege&#8221; &#8211; &#8220;fried chicken kitten care&#8221;) versions are just as atrocious. And the Russian version? &#8220;Fried Chicken \u0443\u0445\u043e\u0434 \u0437\u0430 \u043a\u043e\u0442\u0435\u043d\u043a\u043e\u043c&#8221;&#8230; Google didn&#8217;t even deign to translate the &#8220;Fried Chicken&#8221; part (but where did it come from in the first place, when I am translating from Spanish to Russian?) although the rest of the translation (&#8220;care for the kitten&#8221;) is acceptable.<\/p>\n<p>As I said&#8230; machine translation still leaves a lot to be desired.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=8510' send='true' layout='standard' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Machine translation still leaves a lot to be desired. I was watching a cute YouTube video this morning, about a tiny kitten kept warm by a chicken. The title of the video was in Spanish. My Spanish being nonexistent (in fact, at first I thought the title was in Italian) I used Google Translate. When <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=8510' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,11,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cats","category-computers","category-language","category-7-id","category-11-id","category-53-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8510"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8910,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8510\/revisions\/8910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}