Really lost in translation

Language Log 2014-02-23

Summary:

Ray Girvan ("Ibong Adarna: Google Mistranslate", 3/17/2014) documents one of the more bizarre machine-translation oddities in recent years: Ibong Adarna is the title of a massively popular epic fantasy in the mythology and culture of the Philippines; it originally went under the snappy title of Corrido ng Pinagdaanang Buhay nang Tatlong Principeng, Magcacapatid na Anac nang […]

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http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=10697

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Authors:

Mark Liberman

Date tagged:

02/23/2014, 11:40

Date published:

02/23/2014, 08:58