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Untranslator
ruminations on The Lunchroom of the Pharaoh's Slaves | |
While watching a popsci documentary on muon detection in archaeology, I notice that one of the scientists/team-members wears a t-shirt, the front adorned solely by the words
"Garden Railway of My Favorite City".
Obviously, a rather clever bit of humour, and any local pointing a cameraphone at the
English nonsense phrase receives a translation, entirely sensible in their own language due to vagaries and shortcomings in iTranslate. Wonderful. Oh how I laughed, having solved the mystery.
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Somehwat unrelatedly, proposed is a program/app that uses insider-level knowledge of common translation program algorithms to accurately deconstruct a machine-translation back to its input text.
Simply cut'n'paste the offending phrase into the "Wotchutalkin'boutWillis" untranslator app and get back either the original text, or another translation attempt - this time by the user's choice from more sophisticated translation programs/versions.
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Spoiler#1 : they found a new Great Pyramid chamber "the size of a 200 passenger aircraft", which linguistic practise begs repeated smacks upside the head, delivered appropriately.
Spoiler#2 : applying some google-fu, the back of the tee probably says "The High Line, NYC"
Spoiler#3: catchphrase in a vintage TV sitcom.
Anything to do with this?
https://www.urbande...an-decay/UD714.html
[pashute, Jan 25 2018]
Actually, this...
http://www.pbs.org/...-the-great-pyramid/
[FlyingToaster, Jan 25 2018]
and this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Line
[FlyingToaster, Jan 25 2018]
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How did high become garden. Something to do with Arabic or
French? |
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It would be pointlessly cruel, demeaning, humiliating and gratuitously offensive to make fun of you simply because of your slightly imperfect command of English idiom, [pash]. |
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Hahahahaha, what an idiot ...! Durrrr .... |
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Stop sniggering 8th, you didn't get it, either. |
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It looked perfectly reasonable at 4 am when it was posted. |
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Semantic mappings between natural languages tend not to be
bijective. Therefore your inside
knowledge of the algorithm might tell you that, in a given context,
both A and B map to X. So, given X in the output language, you
can't reconstruct whether A or B was used in the input language. |
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Besides, for the example quoted, what's needed is not insider
knowledge of algorithms but, rather, knowledge about New York,
and what's hip this week. |
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