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  • cstross@wandering.shopC cstross@wandering.shop

    Found on Bluesky. The perils of machine translation exemplified:

    xs4me2@mastodon.socialX This user is from outside of this forum
    xs4me2@mastodon.socialX This user is from outside of this forum
    xs4me2@mastodon.social
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    #17

    @cstross

    Sigh....

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    • cstross@wandering.shopC cstross@wandering.shop

      Found on Bluesky. The perils of machine translation exemplified:

      eedly@mindly.socialE This user is from outside of this forum
      eedly@mindly.socialE This user is from outside of this forum
      eedly@mindly.social
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      #18

      @cstross Don't be so careful in time of death. Do you want to muhym forever?

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      • cstross@wandering.shopC cstross@wandering.shop

        Found on Bluesky. The perils of machine translation exemplified:

        grumpydad@infosec.exchangeG This user is from outside of this forum
        grumpydad@infosec.exchangeG This user is from outside of this forum
        grumpydad@infosec.exchange
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        #19

        @cstross I think I just had a stroke.

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        • cstross@wandering.shopC cstross@wandering.shop

          Found on Bluesky. The perils of machine translation exemplified:

          zieg@twiukraine.comZ This user is from outside of this forum
          zieg@twiukraine.comZ This user is from outside of this forum
          zieg@twiukraine.com
          wrote last edited by
          #20

          @cstross is that OK that I can actually read and understand the whole instruction and the third sentence in particular?

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          • tezoatlipoca@mas.toT tezoatlipoca@mas.to

            @cstross Between two uzmeruyamu? Isn't Uzmeruyamu that anime horse-girl racing game?

            adamrice@c.imA This user is from outside of this forum
            adamrice@c.imA This user is from outside of this forum
            adamrice@c.im
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            #21

            @tezoatlipoca @cstross Surely that would be Umamusume (馬娘).

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            • cstross@wandering.shopC cstross@wandering.shop

              Found on Bluesky. The perils of machine translation exemplified:

              D This user is from outside of this forum
              D This user is from outside of this forum
              drchaos@sauropods.win
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              #22

              @cstross I want all warning labels to start with "Come on, please!"

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              • blotosmetek@circumstances.runB blotosmetek@circumstances.run

                @cstross I'm pretty sure the original was in Russian. "muhym" is misinterpreted "минут", ie. "minutes" (in handwriting Cyrillic и looks exactly like Latin u and н looks like n) etc.

                shadowdancer@mstdn.socialS This user is from outside of this forum
                shadowdancer@mstdn.socialS This user is from outside of this forum
                shadowdancer@mstdn.social
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                #23

                @blotosmetek
                Okay, but that would mean that what happened here wasn't just a straight Russian to English text translation.

                Instead it would seem that there's been an image with Russian text which then was read in with some dumb OCR software that had no understanding of cyrillic alphabet.

                Then the already broken Russian langauge was translated to English resulting in even more broken English.
                @cstross

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                • shadowdancer@mstdn.socialS shadowdancer@mstdn.social

                  @blotosmetek
                  Okay, but that would mean that what happened here wasn't just a straight Russian to English text translation.

                  Instead it would seem that there's been an image with Russian text which then was read in with some dumb OCR software that had no understanding of cyrillic alphabet.

                  Then the already broken Russian langauge was translated to English resulting in even more broken English.
                  @cstross

                  blotosmetek@circumstances.runB This user is from outside of this forum
                  blotosmetek@circumstances.runB This user is from outside of this forum
                  blotosmetek@circumstances.run
                  wrote last edited by
                  #24

                  @shadowdancer @cstross exactly so! Probably with some effort, even with my very rusty Russian, I could recreate the original text…

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                  • cstross@wandering.shopC cstross@wandering.shop

                    Found on Bluesky. The perils of machine translation exemplified:

                    saxicola@toot.communityS This user is from outside of this forum
                    saxicola@toot.communityS This user is from outside of this forum
                    saxicola@toot.community
                    wrote last edited by
                    #25

                    @cstross
                    Item 5 does kinda make sense though.

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                    • cadbury_moose@wandering.shopC This user is from outside of this forum
                      cadbury_moose@wandering.shopC This user is from outside of this forum
                      cadbury_moose@wandering.shop
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                      #26

                      @Knitronomicon @cstross

                      This torpid moose reckons he will starch his moustache.

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                      • cstross@wandering.shopC cstross@wandering.shop

                        Found on Bluesky. The perils of machine translation exemplified:

                        ghostonthehalfshell@masto.aiG This user is from outside of this forum
                        ghostonthehalfshell@masto.aiG This user is from outside of this forum
                        ghostonthehalfshell@masto.ai
                        wrote last edited by
                        #27

                        @cstross

                        I’d like to see a logic chain on the pizza box instruction

                        Open before eating

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                        • mdm@mcnamarii.townM mdm@mcnamarii.town

                          @cstross Uh oh, I did 6 muhym, I hope I'll be okay

                          chillicampari@layer8.spaceC This user is from outside of this forum
                          chillicampari@layer8.spaceC This user is from outside of this forum
                          chillicampari@layer8.space
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                          #28

                          @mdm please do not the 6 muyhm @cstross

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                          • D drchaos@sauropods.win

                            @cstross I want all warning labels to start with "Come on, please!"

                            noiseician@mastodon.worldN This user is from outside of this forum
                            noiseician@mastodon.worldN This user is from outside of this forum
                            noiseician@mastodon.world
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                            #29

                            @drchaos with a crude drawing of someone getting poked with a stick
                            @cstross

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                            • cadbury_moose@wandering.shopC cadbury_moose@wandering.shop

                              @Knitronomicon @cstross

                              This torpid moose reckons he will starch his moustache.

                              cadbury_moose@wandering.shopC This user is from outside of this forum
                              cadbury_moose@wandering.shopC This user is from outside of this forum
                              cadbury_moose@wandering.shop
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                              #30

                              @Knitronomicon @cstross

                              Meanwhile, on BlueSky, Simon ‪(@thedenature.bsky.social‬) has noted:

                              A pachelbelsmech is armed with Pachelbel’s Canon.

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