Google translate curiosity
I tend to have phrases in many languages (Spanish, English, French, Esperanto) in my instant messenger, and my coworkers always ask me what they mean. Today I have this french phrase:
Le voilà, le gros cochon, le voilà, le bon à rien! C'est du joli, c'est du joli!
(from the story Toine, from Guy de Maupassant) which means, more or less
Here it is, the big pig, here it is, the good for nothing! How nice, how nice!
But instead of saying that to my coworkers, I told them to use Google translate, which I did to check the result. And what a surprise:
Notice how Google translated differently the words "C'est du joli". I wonder if that's because of the statistical translation (you know, feeding a lot of books to the machine) or because it tries to not repeat the same words over an over, much like what a person does when she writes.
Now, we wanted to see what happened if we repeated the words a lot of times:
Le voilà, le gros cochon, le voilà, le bon à rien! C'est du joli, c'est du joli, c'est du joli, c'est du joli, c'est du joli, c'est du joli, c'est du joli, c'est du joli, c'est du joli!
And again, to our surprise:
There he is, the big pig, here it is, good for nothing! It's pretty, it's pretty, it's pretty, it's pretty, it's pretty, it's pretty, it's pretty, it's nice, that east of beautiful!
Further, changing capital letter to small letters, or removing the exclamation mark gives you different results.
on July 14th, 2008 at 12:17 pm
Hi, I take my time to analize your post...
Your sentence in french with the “c’est du joli” part multiplied by 110 approximately…
Le voilà, le gros cochon, le voilà, le bon à rien! C’est du joli, c’est du joli, c’est du joli, c’est du joli, c’est du joli, c’est du joli, c’est du joli, c’est du joli, c’est du joli, c’est du joli, c’est du joli, c’est du joli, c’est du joli, c’est du joli, c’est du joli, c’est du joli, c’est du joli, c’est du joli, c’est du joli, c’est du joli, c’est du joli, c’est du joli, c’est du joli, c’est du joli, c’est du joli, c’est du joli, c’est du joli, c’est du joli, c’est du joli, c’est du joli, c’est du joli, c’est du joli, c’est du joli, c’est du joli, c’est du joli, c’est du joli, c’est du joli, c’est du joli, c’est du joli, c’est du joli, c’est du joli, c’est du joli, c’est du joli, c’est du joli, c’est du joli, c’est du joli, c’est du joli, c’est du joli, c’est du joli, c’est du joli, c’est du joli, c’est du joli, c’est du joli, c’est du joli, c’est du joli, c’est du joli, c’est du joli, c’est du joli, c’est du joli, c’est du joli, c’est du joli, c’est du joli, c’est du joli, c’est du joli, c’est du joli, c’est du joli, c’est du joli, c’est du joli, c’est du joli, c’est du joli, c’est du joli, c’est du joli, c’est du joli, c’est du joli, c’est du joli, c’est du joli, c’est du joli, c’est du joli, c’est du joli, c’est du joli, c’est du joli, c’est du joli, c’est du joli, c’est du joli, c’est du joli, c’est du joli, c’est du joli, c’est du joli, c’est du joli, c’est du joli, c’est du joli, c’est du joli, c’est du joli, c’est du joli, c’est du joli, c’est du joli, c’est du joli, c’est du joli, c’est du joli, c’est du joli, c’est du joli, c’est du joli, c’est du joli, c’est du joli, c’est du joli, c’est du joli, c’est du joli, c’est du joli, c’est du joli!
Then, the translation by Google Translator…
There he is, the big pig, here it is, good for nothing! It's pretty, it's pretty, it's pretty, it's pretty, it's pretty, it's pretty, it's pretty, it's nice, that east of pretty, it's pretty, it's pretty, it's pretty, it's pretty, it's pretty, it's pretty, it's pretty, it's pretty, it's pretty, it's pretty, it's pretty, it's pretty, it's pretty, it's pretty, it's pretty, it's pretty, it's nice, it's pretty, it's pretty, it's pretty, it's pretty, it's pretty, it's pretty, it's nice, that east of pretty, it's pretty, it's pretty, it's pretty, it's pretty, it's pretty, it's pretty, it's pretty, it's pretty, it's pretty, it's pretty, it's pretty, it's pretty, it's pretty, it's pretty, it's pretty, it's pretty, it's nice, it's pretty, it's pretty, it's pretty, it's pretty, it's pretty, it's pretty, it's nice, that east of pretty, it's pretty, it's pretty, it's pretty, it's pretty, it's pretty, it's pretty, it's pretty, it's pretty, it's pretty, it's pretty, it's pretty, it's pretty, it's pretty, it's pretty, it's pretty, it's pretty, it's nice, it's pretty, it's pretty, it's pretty, it's pretty, it's pretty, it's pretty, it's nice, that east of pretty, it's pretty, it's pretty, it's pretty, it's pretty, it's pretty, it's pretty, it's pretty, it's pretty, it's pretty, it's pretty, it's pretty, it's pretty, it's pretty, it's pretty, it's pretty, it's pretty, it's nice, it's pretty, it's pretty, it's pretty, it's pretty, it's pretty, it's pretty, it's nice, that east of pretty, it's beautiful!
[b][u]Conclusions[/b][/u]
- Notice this pattern:
Pretty, Pretty, Pretty, Pretty, Pretty, Pretty, Nice, that east of pretty
Pretty, Pretty, Pretty, Pretty, Pretty, Pretty, Pretty, Pretty, Pretty, Pretty, Pretty, Pretty, Pretty, Pretty, Pretty, Pretty, Nice
Pretty, Pretty, Pretty, Pretty, Pretty, Pretty, Nice, that east of pretty
Pretty, Pretty, Pretty, Pretty, Pretty, Pretty, Pretty, Pretty, Pretty, Pretty, Pretty, Pretty, Pretty, Pretty, Pretty, Pretty, Nice
Pretty, Pretty, Pretty, Pretty, Pretty, Pretty, Nice, that east of pretty
Pretty, Pretty, Pretty, Pretty, Pretty, Pretty, Pretty, Pretty, Pretty, Pretty, Pretty, Pretty, Pretty, Pretty, Pretty, Pretty, Nice
Pretty, Pretty, Pretty, Pretty, Pretty, Pretty, Nice, that east of pretty
Pretty, Pretty, Pretty, Pretty, Pretty, Pretty, Pretty, Pretty, Pretty, Pretty, Pretty, Pretty, Pretty, Pretty, Pretty, Pretty, Nice
Pretty, Pretty, Pretty, Pretty, Pretty, Pretty, Nice, that east of pretty, it's beautiful!
Let’s replace the words for letters:
Pretty: P
Nice: N
That east of pretty: T
Beautiful: B
Now i’m gonna write the pattern that I describe xxxx using the letters instead words.
I have a pattern just like this one...
[b]P, P, P, P, P, P, N, T
P, P, P, P, P, P, P, P, P, P, P, P, P, P, P, P, N
P, P, P, P, P, P, N, T
P, P, P, P, P, P, P, P, P, P, P, P, P, P, P, P, N
P, P, P, P, P, P, N, T
P, P, P, P, P, P, P, P, P, P, P, P, P, P, P, P, N
P, P, P, P, P, P, N, T
P, P, P, P, P, P, P, P, P, P, P, P, P, P, P, P, N
P, P, P, P, P, P, N, T
B[/b]
Notice that is a pattern or [b]algorithm[/b] that repeats over and over again. The end of the pattern is determined by the word Beautiful represented by “B”.
- Google, like MANAS and you know, it’s a huge program that gives you an answer to your question and doubt. Here, the answer it’s quite simple, Google gives you an automatic answer regulated by a pattern, concluding with a closer : “it's beautiful!”. This closer and the words “that east of pretty” means this...
In spanish...
“Beautiful” es un grupo muy grande. Dentro de ese grupo estan los adjetivos “Pretty” y “Nice” entre otros. La palabra “Nice” Google la usa para que no sea tan repetitivo el “Pretty” aunque a simple vista notamos la enorme cantidad de repeticiones de esta palabra a lo largo del texto enunciado mas arriba. La frase “that east of pretty” sirve para representar su equivalente en castellano o español: “esa instancia de lo lindo”. Finalizando, Google, responde un “it’s beautiful” como un “final” o “closer” a toda la repetición incesante de “Nice” y “Pretty”, notese que en ningun momento Google usa la palabra “beautiful” más que en el final.
[b]THE END =)[/b]
Gracias por leer mi articulo!!!
Espero que le haya despertado tanta curiosidad como la que me desperto a mi su post!! =)
Atte.
Juan Francisco Castro Piccolo
PD: hoy a la mañana le envie mi CV.