A translation test

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The discussion revolves around the peculiar behavior of Chrome's translation feature when handling text in different languages. A user shares a Russian phrase that translates to "Now is the time for all good people to come to the aid of the party," and experiments with how Chrome auto-translates specific words, noting that it translates "Who" to "IN" and "Yes" to "ANDes." The conversation highlights that this auto-translation issue appears to be specific to Russian, as similar attempts with German do not yield the same results. Participants express curiosity about the inconsistencies and explore whether the translation quirks are due to the browser or the forum itself. Overall, the thread emphasizes the oddities of automated translation tools and their varying effectiveness across languages.
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Now is the time for all good people to come to the aid of the party
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Interesting. An artifact in Chrome's translate feature.

Here is some Russian text, posted by your Russian colleague:

сейчас настало время всем хорошим людям прийти на помощь партии
  1. Use Chrome's translate feature, available from the upper right "dot dot dot" menu and select English, so you can read their post.
  2. Quote their post as if you are responding to them.
  3. Start typing a response with any word that starts with capital W, such as Who, What, or Where.

    I see it auto-translate my text - in realtime - from a capital W to IN.

  4. Repeat steps 1 and 2 as a new post. Start typing "Yes".

    I see it auto-translate Yes into ANDes.
I discovered this on a different forum and am trying it here to ascertain that it is a browser issue, not a forum issue.
 
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DaveC426913 said:
Now is the time for all good people to come to the aid of the party
INhere
 
DaveC426913 said:
Now is the time for all good people to come to the aid of the party
ANDes
 
DaveC426913 said:
now is the time for all good people to come to the aid of the party
INho said this?

Strange, but it only happens once.
 
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DaveC426913 said:
Jetzt ist die Zeit für alle guten Menschen, der Partei zu Hilfe zu kommen
Funktioniert nicht mit deutsch. Doesn't work with German.
 
fresh_42 said:
INho said this?

Strange, but it only happens once.
Fun fact: as I translated the page into German, it translated INho automatically and correctly to 'Wer' = who.

Funny game.
 
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fresh_42 said:
Doesn't work with German.
Maybe not those exact words 'Who' and 'Yes', maybe some others. Dunno.
 
Mal sehen, ob das auch mit deutsch anstelle von russisch klappt.

(Let's see if this works with German instead off Russian. Typo intended.)
 
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This is even weirder.

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turns to

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INhere has my sentence with the typo gone? Or the parentheses?
 
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At least we can exclude that it is an issue with Cyrillic.
 

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