Current translation:
Good they fixed it but I wouldn’t be surprised if it broke again. Once I was doing a coding project that involved Google Translate and I was using the same sentences for testing. In a week translation has changed 3 times, from bad to good to bad.
Out of curiosity, did it change back to the previous bad translation, or create a new bad translation?
The different Google translate frontends have different translations sometimes, it might be that. I think it’s the web result and the website being different? Or the app and the website/web result? Idk.
Or maybe they didn’t use Google translate at all? There are other ways to translate things.
Who? The post OP specifies Google Translate and the comment OP shows Google Translate.
Might not be an accurate translation but it still speaks the truth. Unfortunately there aren’t many ways of avoiding the future.
This problem stems from この先 being able to mean “ahead from here in space”, or in time which (mis)translated to “the future”. Without proper context (that it is a sign on a road) the translation software had to make a guess, and it guessed wrong.
It may be possible to infer from 前へ行く in the second sentence that it is more likely referring to space than time, but I still think it is possible to construct some similar sentences which even humans might misunderstand.
Google Translate is generally hot garbage. I’ve actually found DeepL surprisingly good especially with more “niche” languages like Finnish, although it does definitely sometimes get things hilariously wrong
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:
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.
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.
The AI in the machine is crying for help.
