Google Hindi Translation is Sometimes Funny

21 oct 2008

Google Hindi to English Translation suggests this funny translation of “आप हिन्दी समझते है ?” (do you understand Hindi?) You may also like: Translate Hindi Text to English with Google Translation Online Google English To Hindi Transliteration – Type Hindi in English Write Orkut Scraps in Hindi by Typing English Characters Google Free Proxy Server – Language Translation Hindi Speech Recognition Software with Spell Checker

Google Hindi to English Translation suggests this funny translation of “आप हिन्दी समझते है ?” (do you understand Hindi?)

http://hindibaat.blogspot.com Manisha

हां ये अक्सर ऐसा ही मजाकिया दिखता है। इसके विकास में समय लगेगा लेकिन उम्मीद है कि जल्द ही ठीक से अनुवाद होने लगेगा।
http://www.permanaj.com Permana Jayanta

I don’t really understand Hindi. But when I was 8 years old, there are a subject about devanagari or sansekerta (maybe it means sanskrit in english). And yes, google translate sometimes have funny translation. Don’t forget to suggest better translation :D
Nitin

I dont think google has built in the context semantics in their translation system. In your sentence “main question indicator kya is missing”. You probably need to provide a sentence like “kya aap hindi samajhte hain?”. Even we humans wont be able to understand whether your statement is a question or an information if we speak it out. In writing we have ? to indicate that and in speech we have intonation patterns to provide semantic information.
http://www.techpavan.com Pavan Kumar

Hehe, really funny… Someone teach hindi to Google ;-)
http://infoqueenbee.blogspot.com Joy

Very Funny…
http://time-saving-ideas.blogspot.com Jitendra

LOL
Vishal

They are literally translating Hindi to English ;)
http://www.amit.me Amit Verma

I completely agree with Nitin.
http://spaarkx.blogspot.com N. Patel

Same problem occurs with Blogger blog editor when we tries to get Hindi word by A English word.

Really..check it…
R.Singh

actually….you should write .kya aap hindi samajhte hain?
bcoz “aap hindi samajhte hain” is not a interrogative sentence..
by putting a qustn mark after any sentence will not become a interrogative sentence….
G Vishwanath

I just verified this quirk.
I also experimented a bit.

When I tried to translate कया आप हिन्दी समझते हैं without putting a question mark the result was

What you understand Hindi

But if I add a question mark and translate it the result is
What you understand English?

Amazing!