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hydroptic ,

Google Translate is generally hot garbage. I've actually found DeepL surprisingly good especially with more "niche" languages like Finnish, although it does definitely sometimes get things hilariously wrong

Bagel5941 ,

https://aussie.zone/pictrs/image/8002779d-8ca2-4652-bceb-cc3dbcb33640.jpeg

It seems like the sign is trying to kill me in this translation.

hydroptic ,

Is that DeepL's app? I've never used it so I have no idea what the UI looks like and I didn't try to translate the sign's text with the web version.

Edit: out of curiosity I tried out how the web version handles this sign:

https://sopuli.xyz/pictrs/image/75dbbbc5-d920-41e6-9766-bf03e37f3e5f.webp

Bagel5941 ,

Yeah, it's the android version.

To be fair, It looks like a problem with the OCR from the app rather than the translation. When I use the phone's native OCR and copy/paste the text into DeepL Translate, I get the same result as you.

hydroptic ,

Ah right, that definitely makes sense. I can imagine OCR'ing Kanji could be a bit of a nightmare

LwL ,

I distrust DeepL ever since I found out it translates "irritating" into german as "irritierend" (which means confusing, and is a common mistranslation for obvious reasons). Though I'm sure google translate does similar dumb things.

Tja ,

It also does mean annoying/irritating, I don't think it's wrong.

LwL ,

Duden apparently agrees but it's a rare enough use case that I've never heard it used that way in my life, fair enough tho. Still not a great default tl but at least somewhat acceptable then.

Tja ,

Could it be regional? I hear it relatively often in Munich in that meaning.

LwL ,

Maybe, since I live in the north! (Fwiw the meaning of irritating as in irritating skin is pretty common here too, just not as annoyance).

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