{"id":6366,"date":"2015-08-31T14:28:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-31T14:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=6366"},"modified":"2015-08-31T14:49:13","modified_gmt":"2015-08-31T14:49:13","slug":"cant-tell-norwegian-from-english-it-must-be-bing-translator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=6366","title":{"rendered":"Can&#8217;t tell Norwegian from English? It must be Bing Translator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bing_Translator\">According to Wikipedia<\/a>, Bing Translator &#8220;<em>is a user facing translation portal provided by Microsoft as part of its Bing services to translate texts or entire web pages into different languages<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Or it would be if only it could actually recognise languages accurately.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter uses Bing Translator as an interface ostensibly to help users with languages they do not know.<\/p>\n<p>However, Bing Translator still has some way to go before it recognises languages accurately, as shown by the following screenshot.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2015\/08\/norwegian_twitter-600x258.png\" alt=\"Bing Translator mistakes English for Norwegian\" width=\"600\" height=\"258\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2015\/08\/norwegian_twitter-600x258.png 600w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2015\/08\/norwegian_twitter-300x129.png 300w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2015\/08\/norwegian_twitter.png 605w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Whilst it is understandable that online machine translation tools can occasionally get confused between closely related members of the same language family (<em>Google Translate has been known to confuse Norwegian and Danish. Ed.<\/em>), this is the first time I can recall such a back end helper being a real tool and getting muddled over languages as distinct from one another as English and Norwegian.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps any passing Microsoft developers would care to explain this anomaly in the comments below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Wikipedia, Bing Translator &#8220;is a user facing translation portal provided by Microsoft as part of its Bing services to translate texts or entire web pages into different languages.&#8221; Or it would be if only it could actually recognise languages accurately. Twitter uses Bing Translator as an interface ostensibly to help users with languages [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,17,34,9],"tags":[10,22,35,23],"class_list":["post-6366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-translation-and-language-related-matters","category-oddities","category-social-media","category-tech","tag-facepalm","tag-language","tag-social-media","tag-tech-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6366"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6370,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6366\/revisions\/6370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}