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It seems like the sign is trying to kill me in this translation.

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Is that DeepL’s app? I’ve never used it so I have no idea what the UI looks like and I didn’t try to translate the sign’s text with the web version.

Edit: out of curiosity I tried out how the web version handles this sign:

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Yeah, it’s the android version.

To be fair, It looks like a problem with the OCR from the app rather than the translation. When I use the phone’s native OCR and copy/paste the text into DeepL Translate, I get the same result as you.

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Ah right, that definitely makes sense. I can imagine OCR’ing Kanji could be a bit of a nightmare

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I distrust DeepL ever since I found out it translates “irritating” into german as “irritierend” (which means confusing, and is a common mistranslation for obvious reasons). Though I’m sure google translate does similar dumb things.

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It also does mean annoying/irritating, I don’t think it’s wrong.

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Duden apparently agrees but it’s a rare enough use case that I’ve never heard it used that way in my life, fair enough tho. Still not a great default tl but at least somewhat acceptable then.

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