Civilized dog

Language Log 2025-01-04

Summary:

The large characters say: wénmíng yǎng gǒu 文明养狗 "raise [your] dog [in a] civilized [manner] This one is difficult for the machine translators to deal with. The fine print says: qǐng jíshí qīnglǐ chǒngwù páixiè wù 请及时清理宠物排泄物 "Please clean up your pet's excrement promptly" The machine translators do a credible job with this one. We've had […]

Link:

https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=67715&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=civilized-dog

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Authors:

Victor Mair

Date tagged:

01/04/2025, 00:20

Date published:

01/03/2025, 20:17