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Google Translate Easter Egg

138 pointsby hardik988over 14 years ago

18 comments

redthrowawayover 14 years ago
Google translate relies on people to provide better translations if theirs is inaccurate. This is likely a result of gaming. Still funny, though.
eykanalover 14 years ago
I just tried to use google translate in hebrew; giving it words in all lowercase provides a gramatically very different translation than giving it words all in uppercase. For example, typing "good morning" gives the hebrew equivalent of "it is good in the morning" (טוב בבוקר), while typing "GOOD MORNING" gives the appropriate greeting in hebrew (בוקר טוב). Not sure if that's a bug or a feature, but definitely very screwy.
moultanoover 14 years ago
This seems more like a bug than an easter egg.
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cfqover 14 years ago
Translation Party: <a href="http://www.translationparty.com/#8641571" rel="nofollow">http://www.translationparty.com/#8641571</a><p>I HATE YOU &#62;&#62; I need to use your Facebook
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rjeover 14 years ago
It seems like "I HATE x" seems to give you some variation that includes facebook. Only seems to work english-&#62;japanese<p>Also seems like it needs to be all caps.
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PCheeseover 14 years ago
There seem to be more instances of bugs/gaming/easter eggs: <a href="http://translate.google.com/#fr|en|Je%20m%27appelle%20Sam.%20" rel="nofollow">http://translate.google.com/#fr|en|Je%20m%27appelle%20Sam.%2...</a><p>Translates to "ANNIE" (but only if you include the final period).
ruddover 14 years ago
It seems that it's fixed. When this was posted, it translated "I HATE YOU" to "私はあなたFacebookを利用しています".
hardik988over 14 years ago
There's another version :<p><a href="http://translate.google.com/#auto|ja|WE%20REALLY%20HATE%20THIS%20COMPANY" rel="nofollow">http://translate.google.com/#auto|ja|WE%20REALLY%20HATE%20TH...</a><p>which translates back to : Our company is really using Facebook.
maushuover 14 years ago
Try "I HATE HATRED." and translate back to english.<p>Here's the result: <a href="http://translate.google.com/#auto|en|私は憎しみFacebookを利用しています。" rel="nofollow">http://translate.google.com/#auto|en|私は憎しみFacebookを利用しています。</a>
joedavis512over 14 years ago
Reading all the other answers with links to translationparty.com, I decided to google "translation party wikipedia" (without the quotes) and the first result was "Ranks and insignia of the Nazi Party - Wikipedia".
raghavaover 14 years ago
I happened to see meanwhile that even if I type 'goobe'(which means 'owl' in Kannada) after setting source to auto, it says "We are not yet able to translate from Kannada into English". Really, amazing!
zephjcover 14 years ago
The German-&#62;German beatbox trick is much more interesting (see <a href="http://www.geekosystem.com/how-to-make-google-translate-beatbox/" rel="nofollow">http://www.geekosystem.com/how-to-make-google-translate-beat...</a> )
khangtohover 14 years ago
<a href="http://translate.google.com/#en|zh-CN|I%20HATE%20YOU%0A%0AI%20LOVE%20YOU" rel="nofollow">http://translate.google.com/#en|zh-CN|I%20HATE%20YOU%0A%0AI%...</a><p>Check out this translation, it adds emotion as well :)
Strunkover 14 years ago
I don't think this is an easter egg. Googles translations gives the user the ability to help them translate things better to future use. Thinks it's a bug. :)
kiyotoover 14 years ago
As posted, the translation is ungrammatical.<p><a href="http://translate.google.com/#auto|ja|YOU%20%20HATE%20YOU" rel="nofollow">http://translate.google.com/#auto|ja|YOU%20%20HATE%20YOU</a><p>gives a grammatical (mis)translation.
holdupadamover 14 years ago
Pretty funny result.<p>Makes me think if machine translation is to improve it will almost certainly require human translators to contribute. The style in which Google is doing this seems like this will happen more often.
jackcolaover 14 years ago
Here are some more google translator easter eggs <a href="http://www.jackcola.org/blog/128-the-best-google-translator-easter-eggs" rel="nofollow">http://www.jackcola.org/blog/128-the-best-google-translator-...</a>
olalondeover 14 years ago
Anyone can translate?
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