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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (10 children)

QR code of buy-european.net with Greek text and DejaVu font

QR code of buy-european.net with Greek text and DejaVu font

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (9 children)

@atro_city Pardon me for saying, but that's a terrible translation!! (greek here)

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (8 children)

No worries, blame deepl ๐Ÿ˜› What's a better translation?

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

@atro_city ฮ‘ฮณฮฟฯฮฌฮถฮตฯ„ฮต ฮตฯ…ฯฯ‰ฯ€ฮฑฯŠฮบฮฌ (You may want to capitalize the ฮ• in ฮตฯ…ฯฯ‰ฯ€ฮฑฯŠฮบฮฌ (to ฮ•ฯ…ฯฯ‰ฯ€ฮฑฯŠฮบฮฌ) - not sure which is more correct).

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Thanks! I'll make a post asking others for help in other languages. I'm 100% sure there are other terrible translations :D

Out of curiosity, what's wrong with deepl's translation here?

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

@atro_city It means "take/receive" (not buy, and even that in ancient greek, and even then, in a single moment - i.e. not continuously which would be ฮ›ฮฑฮผฮฒฮฌฮฝฮตฯ„ฮต) "the european" (singular, neutral gender) - but this opens the question: the european WHAT? The european toy? The european ball? There's a word missing there. Whereas ฮ•ฯ…ฯฯ‰ฯ€ฮฑฯŠฮบฮฌ is plural (so it can mean "stuff, in general", so it's ok even without another word).

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Thank you for the explanation. Languages are fascinating. LLMs still have to go a long way to have good translations. This is what I expected honestly. I know some people who speak languages not often found on the internet and the translations are awful.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

@atro_city Maybe the translations would be better if you told the LLM you want this for a slogan on stickers for a campaign you're doing.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

You can't give DeepL instructions. Just the text you want to translate (just like Google Translate). It's better than Google Translate for most things.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago (1 children)

@atro_city I don't think Europe is any better than other parts of the world, but I think these stickers of yours would have quite an effect if you perfect the design (margins, etc) and they're stuck everywhere.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

I'm not a graphic designer and have no eye for design. The SVG is provided and licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0, so anybody can open it in Inkscape to make the changes they think are necessary :)

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