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Google Translate Cannot Handle Dead Languages (2019) (talesoftimesforgotten.com)
3 points by BerislavLopac on May 16, 2020 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


I recently re-read The Name of the Rose, and tried using Google Translate to translate some of the Latin quotes that appear throughout the text. It was close to useless, which surprised me as most (it not all) of the quotes are from well-known and widely translated texts.




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