Abysmal & suspiciously frightening Japanese-to-English translation
I cant help but wonder if Google is trolling with the Japanese-to-English translations (mostly from screenshots, or via the camera). As others have mentioned, the translations are completely mangled and senseless, and 99% inaccurate.
Also, some very horrifying and profane results occasionally appear -- sentences and words that I KNOW for a fact dont have anything to do with the context of the Japanese characters/text that I am trying to translate from the screenshots.
It feels extremely demonic, actually. . . I think Google is doing this on purpose. I deleted this garbage Google app because it was seriously frightening me, and is not even helpful at all.
A few examples of the frightening translations Ive received:
1. When I turn on the camera function to pick a screenshot from my pictures, somehow when the app scans for Japanese text (and no text is there) it finds nonexistent "phantom words" in the background, in the objects and scenery in front of the camera lens. It randomly found and popped up with the words "CANCER" and "KILL" on my table, among other bizarre things. How can it "find" such weird and disturbing words that arent there!?
2. A sentence from a Japanese advertisement for a childrens toy (a hamster plush doll) translated to: "I will strangle my friends and colleagues."
That is downright terrifying! I have no idea why it would mistranslate a cute toy advert to something so inaccurate, psychopathic and murderous!
3. A sentence from a screenshot of a Japanese childrens app game (when you feed an animal in the game) was supposed to say, "I am full. I cannot eat anymore food." But this app literally translated it to "I cannot get [bleeped] up anymore." Yes, it mistranslated it to the f-word profanity -- which, by the way, DOES NOT EVEN EXIST IN THE JAPANESE LANGUAGE!!!
This was the final straw. Deleted!
I know this might sound crazy, but I am being completely honest! I am petrified by what this app mistranslated!
What the hell, Google!? Why is this sick, warped app mistranslating Japanese text into vulgar, horrifying things!? Never using this again! ?
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