Why does every sport I do have a fucking BLOOD RIVARLY with wind
I can't toss flags in the wind, I can't hit tennis balls in the wind?? Why do you hate me, wind???

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Why does every sport I do have a fucking BLOOD RIVARLY with wind
I can't toss flags in the wind, I can't hit tennis balls in the wind?? Why do you hate me, wind???
Anytime someone on tiktok thanks me for making a comment like "the og artist is [user], please make sure to show them some love!" on repost videos, I feel like a superhero saving the day
because he will
he will
bake your beans
HE WILL SPILL THE BEANS OUT YOU STUPID F*CK
he will drop your baked beans
I love when people write posts like they were struggling to talk through laughter.
I love when people
write posts like they were struggling
to talk through laughter.
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
Reminder that capitalism is the death of art
are you whiny bitches seriously acting like faster and more affordable and more accessible translation is bad? it’s a bad thing? it’s a thing we should be against now? is that seriously where we’ve arrived? can you people think for ten fucking seconds just ONCE?
machine translation is really good for many languages - esp the romance ones - and while its not perfect or anything, like.. i don’t know how to tell you it’s a good thing we’re able to instantly speak to people, 80% accurately, from anywhere in the world
I went through the notes on this post specifically to find this reply - or one like it. Because it has a point, and it’s a decent point for you, the person. But it’s also missing the info of the larger scale problem.
(Or it isn’t; as you rightly point out in the tags, it’s a capitalism problem. But I’ll expand on this point of “capitalism”. I need to rant. I need to scream.)
I’m a professional translator. I work in video games and software, with an occasional dash of literary translation. I’ve worked in translation proper, I’ve worked on editing other people’s work, I’ve led a couple of translator teams. I’ve worked the occasional miracle, working around some Really Dumb Choices the developers made.
(Spoiler alert: other languages have different syntax and grammar, if you give me a list of nouns to translate, and then give me the plural “s” to translate separately, this is not good. Even in English, woman -> womans is dumb.)
I am a fan of making things affordable and accessible. I am really happy that Google Translate and similar things can tell me the gist of what people are saying in conversations I only half care about. As the poster above says, it’s great! Not perfect, but ok!
Do you know what’s not great? Do you know what the OP in the original image means?
The client the original image is talking about isn’t you. It’s not some person on the internet trying to find out what someone said in a Post. The client they’re talking about is, essentially, the corporation: the translation agency, the publishing house, the IT giant.
You, the individual, do not have the power to demand how I do my job. If you come to me and say, “Sarshi, I want you to take this 300-word post, run it through Google Translate, and then charge me half of what you usually do for translating it”, I can take it or leave it.
But I get contacted by agencies - half of them want this. “We have a game, Sarshi! Just post-edit the results of a machine translation!” “We have support articles, Sarshi! We’re paying you a lot less to post-edit the results of machine translation!”
You say it’s ok to have 80% accuracy, and I feel you! Yes, sometimes it is! But companies are like “lol, this works”, too!
It’s happening over and over. And these aren’t… they’re not people, you know? They’re not Auntie May trying to figure out what the dough recipe she got from her niece in Indonesia says. They’re agencies, trying to increase their earnings by promising top quality to companies, then going, “gosh, we said we’d do it for cheap, how can we manage that?”
Or they can even be large companies themselves. Oh, you’ve spent a bajillion trillion dollars trying to create the CryptoNFTVirtualRealityAI hybrid that everybody knew wouldn’t work and now you panic because your earnings are lower than usual? Oh, and you want to “cut costs” by screwing over every contractor you have? Great. Just great.
This is going to screw you over - you, the individual. Not my client, not the translator’s client in general - the company’s client. The corporation is too big to really care about how you feel about their product - the employees individually might, but the company’s only metric is if you buy it or not. And the company makes decisions based on what brings the most money for the least cost.
So your hardware manuals might be crap and you might be in tears because you have no idea how to make your new appliance do the thing. You’ll go on YouTube and you’ll find a solution, and you’ll eventually figure it out. And maybe you’ll forget about the crap manual in time. So next time, they still won’t get a good translator, because they already have a cheaper solution that seems to work.
So your game looks like it was translated by a bunch of rats in a bunker and you can barely understand what anyone’s saying? Well, maybe they got a bottom-feeding agency overpromise that they totally have legit translators working for $1/hour. Pinky swear! Did you buy the game? You did. So… the system worked! They’ll hire the same agency again!
It’s like the clothing industry all over again. We could have better clothes, but it’s cheaper not to. They’re doing us a service by selling us shoes that won’t last a season, and T-shirts that will look like crap after washing them twice - they’re cheap, aren’t they? They’re affordable. Anyone can get clothes. (So you pay more in time are are more frustrated? Who’s counting!)
And meanwhile, it’s easy to forget things might be different. That we have the ability to create good things, pleasant things. That manuals can be easily readable, that games can sound great, that books can be awesome to read. It becomes harder to trust the market, harder to believe in quality, easier to say that this is normal, this is how things just are.
And if you speak English natively, well… You’re at a huge advantage. A lot of stuff is created by your people, for you. For countries like mine, that are small enough to import a lot, nearly everything is translated. I want you to imagine almost all movies subbed, every appliance made elsewhere (with menus needing translated and all), every app in a foreign language. And everybody who can cut costs will try to.
It’s not… it’s not great.
#excellent breakdown #i promise no translator worth anything is against individual people being able to use mt to understand texts and communicate #i’m a translator and i’m a big fan of machine translation in my everyday life but it should not be used commercially #machine translation in commercial products is at worst a health and safety risk #but NOBODY who actually understands the matter is saying that mt shouldn’t exist. for fuck’s sake
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@spanish-blog I have an even better illustration of why machine translation sucks:
Here I asked google to translate 跌倒, a Chinese verb meaning “to tumble or fall down” into French. The translation google provides is “automne,” a noun meaning “fall, the season of the year between spring and winter.”
English is the only language where the word for “fall” (to tumble) is the same as the word “fall” (the season of the year). Neither Chinese nor French use the same word to express these very different concepts.
Google isn’t doing a bad Chinese-to-French translation here. In fact, it’s not doing a Chinese-to-French translation at all. What’s happening instead is google is doing a bad Chinese to English translation, followed by an even worse English to French translation. It’s playing a secret game of telephone, wherein requests to translate between two non-English languages are getting translated into English first, and then into the target language.
all hail the king?
Her name is Valentina Petrillo and she is a visually-impaired sprinter.
Time to support her, because even without the racism element I expect she will be getting some flak from Awful, Awful People.
This is the shit I was talking about when I said that EVERY SINGLE ONE of you who have been posting variations on "yasss girl, go Imane, get her ass" and "She's not a man, also biology is hella complicated and not black & white", had better SHOW THE FUCK UP for Valentina, with the exact same energy and strength.
Valentina is different than Serena Williams, and Caster Semenya, and Imane Khelif.
All four of these people I mentioned are women.
But for Valentina, you can't pull out the argument I heard a lot for the others, especially Caster and Imane. "She's not even trans anyway, they're just using a sexist and racist standard of what womanhood is 'supposed' to look like- see? Transphobia also hurts cis women!"
Because Valentina IS TRANS.
Yes, transphobia absolutely can and does end up hurting cis women. But let's not forget that it always hurts the intended targets more. And the intended targets are trans people.
Valentina IS trans, and y'all better support and affirm her womanhood with your whole chests, and the same ferocity you did for a cis woman.
Let’s check in more on her!
Oh hey…she’s not only a paralymian, she’s a FIFTY year old one! Defying preconceived notions of age!
She’s been dreaming of going to the Olympics since she was 7. She came out as in 2018 and is the first out trans woman to compete in the Paralympics.
When she transitioned, she lost about 11 secs of her usual aprint times, and asked about it she said,
If Valentina Petrillo is selected for Italy's squad in Tokyo this year, she will be the first trans woman Paralympian.
❤️❤️ 🤣
Wishing her the best of luck at her events on 9/2 and 9/6!
hey genuine question why do people put that fucking water filter over screenshots. just post them. fuck you.
no. get submerged
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Oncorhynchus mykiss
facebook has bots saying random garbage that nobody cares about to each other but on tumblr that work is still done lovingly by hand
this post's hypothetical by itself is already ridiculous but the thing that gets me is how the wording implies two very funny things that become funnier in tandem
1. "Accidentally, the pitcher tosses a Christian baby" means this is a mistake on the pitcher's part. i imagine the pitcher is breastfeeding on the field and they pitch and they look down at their hands and they see the ball still in the glove and they go "fuck"
2. hitting the baby will still win you the game
I had previously seen the bottom image with zero context like 5 times before finally finding the context post and that’s why I love tumblr.
the thing about thistle is like. people whose favorite character is thistle may be a relatively small slice of the dungeon meshi fandom, but there is no such thing as a casual thistle enjoyer. ALL of us are insane abt him
laios in his berry eating dome
Sobbing,weeping and crying,,,
please i love you i'm begging you bring back suspension of disbelief bring back trusting the audience like. i cannot handle any more dialogue that sounds like a legal document. "hello, i am here to talk to you about the incident from a few minutes ago, because i feel you might be unwell, and i am invested in your personal wellbeing." "thank you, i am unwell because the incident was hurtful to me due to my childhood, which was bad." I CANT!!!!
do you know how many people are mad that authors use "growled" as a word for "said"? it's just poetics! they do not literally mean "growled," it's just a common replacement for "said with force but in a low tone." it's normal! do you hear me!! help me i love you please let me out of here!!!
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Today’s Thistle is: 👁️ 👄 👁️
The push and pull of “relationships can be very affectionate and still be platonic” and “those are the gayest motherfuckers I’ve ever seen”.