>translate everything like it's a joss whedon script
>add dated reddit meme references to localization
>add epic political reference to own the chuds
>make several mistakes on basic shit like numbers
>translate shit in way that literally says the opposite of the original line
"how could they turn to AI"
@zero They should just go back to nips doing the translations themselves.

All your base are belong to us is a significant improvemrnt over trans rights.
@poastoak @zero tragically, with current technology, nips would use LLMs and then not even notice that the pronouns are completely fucked up and heavily using 'they'. This trend was already apparent with pre-LLM machine translation. The era of "All your base" is forbidden to us now. Unreachable, like the Garden of Eden.

@apropos @poastoak @zero I've noticed that Japanese to English translation using something like Google translate will often mess up he/she pronouns and swap them around. Don't know Japanese well enough to know why that is. I guess without context the translation may not know what's going on.

@beardalaxy @apropos @poastoak @zero Japanese has gendered pronouns in the first and third person, but it also has neutral ones, which are probably used more outside of dialogue-type text.
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@Giga_Vril_Breaker @apropos @poastoak @zero Earlier this year SEGA announced a new female character in PSO2 NGS and the English narrator referred to her as "he" but in the actual game she's definitely a female. I know if you translated the Tears of the Kingdom Japanese website it would refer to Zelda as a male as well, which is obviously not true. Very interesting.

WHY DEY DO DAT TO MUH SAIL FOAM CAIN BUHLEE DIS IS HAPNIN RIGH NAO SWEAH TO GAWD ON GAWD BRUH YAW BETTUH FIX MAH MUTHAFUCKIH iFOAM BITCH I'MA GITCHO ASS :breev:
@beardalaxy @apropos @poastoak @zero Whatever causes these issues is most likely programmer bias being present in the code rather than the translator software being "too precise" or Japanese being "too confusing". Japanese has more gendered language, tbh, than English, and it's not just pronouns but even manner of speech, like verb endings, honorifics, stuff like that. You can most often even deduce the gender of a person from the way people speak to them. It's not super difficult to learn and get right most of the time, so in my mind there is only one possibility why software gets it wrong.
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