SonofMaudlin

Maddie. 32. South Carolina. Demi.

[aroace-ryland-grace]

the sewing machine is like if a horse and an inkjet printer had a child

[melongifts]

Hey anyone notice how google translate is being pretty liberal with their translations as of late? Takin some real liberties to infer tone.

[melongifts]

ask and ye shall receive: When I write in Japanese I usually also throw it in google translate to double check that I'm not using the wrong kanji by mistake, and two years ago it gave me very dry and literal translations.

I was doing it today and noticed it had a pretty strong voice added to the output

For reference, to give a dry translation I would put: Lately I'm into in Hanafuda. Nobody seems to know anything about it here, so they probably wouldn't understand my brilliant jokes. I guess you guys will never be able to understand "Mister November and the Scary Cave".

I have a fluent friend who is able to check my work for me and give me tips on hitting the correct tone (I was going for a comically casual feeling), so I'm confident that I'm expressing the feeling I'm intending. While Google is also hitting the same emotion, I really don't like knowing that it's assigning tone in the first place.

To check if it was editorializing based on informal grammatical choices, I formal'd up the writing to be more polite and remove any non-standard vocabulary.

I'm just like... what is anyone who is translating what I'm thinking into their own language going to think when a translation app decides that it knows my intended tone? When online communication is already so complicated and nuanced? I'm a non-native so I'm spending ages agonizing over 117 characters, but when I'm chatting in English I'm not being so deliberate. How likely is it that tools that 'naturalize' are going to make choices that don't reflect reality and lead to insulting misunderstandings? I spoke with an English learner just yesterday who thought they were being bullied (they were not, the commenter in question was just excitedly infodumping about sociology) because something was lost in translation, and I wonder if it's because of tools making choices like this. I'm just a luddite I don't trust stuff like this. stinks of ai asking me if it can rerwrite my email in a more quirky style.

[melongifts]

What do you mean I'm just using the browser versi-

I AM SO SICK OF DEFAULT AI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[voidsetup1]

and out of the darkness - you you you you you

[crabussy]

wow I love to sit crosslegged without moving for several hours straight!

[crabussy]

okay time to straighten my legs man I'm so excited

[crabussy]

I f eel like a suit of armour that was attacked by a welder

[crabussy]

I am nineteen years old

[crabussy]

I am so sorry I just turned 20 I hope you can forgive me

[crabussy]

. yeah okay true I did do that

[draculasweedsmokinggirlfriend]

Happy May 3rd to all those going on a business trip to transylvania !!

[shorm]

[jetrocketskates-blog]

someone explain to me what is even going on

[theblackhood-deactivated2013050]

two gameboys trading pokemons over linkcable.

[imabrickshithouse]

Is there an award for best gif because I’d like to nominate this one.

[alexxuun]

What happens when Grace doesn’t sleep for 48 hours.

Based on this panel from Dungeon Meshi:

[primeministerofantarctica]

rocky: im not a scientist, im like the least qualified person on this ship, the only reason i survived while the actual scientists died was pure dumb luck :(

ryland grace's internal monologue like every five seconds: oh my god this guy is like a supergenius, he's literally the best engineer i've ever seen, there's no way every other eridian is this smart, like do you even KNOW how cool you are-

[freakytikigifs]

Ryan Gosling and James Ortiz as Ryland Grace and Rocky PROJECT HAIL MARY

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Maybe we saw the real shrimp colours this whole time.

[alexxuun]

Fist my bump!

Wait until you hear about fist me…

[purpldology]

"Rocky my hand is up" he is SUCH a teacher omg I love him

[ivycryptid]

here's some weird project hail mary book stuff the movie skipped because it Didn't Want To Touch That:

they nuked antarctica ryland gets called a leaky space blob eridians culturally hate seeing others eat. viscerally. theres no edible food for ryland on erid so he has to eat these (synthesized!!) things he calls me-burgers. please guess what me-burgers might just be made out of. they paved over the sahara. to breed astrophage. grace forgot his name for the whole first... multiple chapters, and called himself: - bite me - Emperor Comatose (kneel before him) - The great philosopher pendulus stratt pirated everything ever (yes. Everything Ever) for the hail mary to have on board the computer and the un tried to sue her about it. they failed there's a panspermia subplot

[seadeepspaceontheside]

Stupid ugly statement

[megamindsupremacy]

yall think Grace ever got zoochosis. I’m imagining him walking in circles counting exactly how many steps it takes to go around the entire perimeter of his Dome ten times over while staring into the middle distance. meanwhile Rocky is shaking Adrian’s shoulders (?) going Honey We Have To Add Enrichment To His Enclosure. Adrian His Squishy Human Brain Is Melting. Do We Have Any Space Middle Schoolers To Throw At Him.

Edit: if one more person starts talking about zoochosis instead of what this post is actually about (a fictional HUMAN man in an alien dome teaching alien middle schoolers In Fiction, not critical Animal behavior scicomm in Real Life) im going to fucking kill them and then theyre getting blocked

[valtsv]

can't stop thinking about how hysterical project hail mary would be from rocky's pov when you consider that, by eridian standards, basic human functioning is simultaneously an incredibly hostile and violently perverted body horror fetish nightmare. imagine you make first contact with an alien and it's an apex predator with an obscene number of orifices, made up mostly of toxic substances that it oozes constantly from said orifices, thrives in an unforgivingly cold and suffocating atmosphere, is highly motivated by searching for its next meal + consumes its food publicly in violation of your society's main taboo, and is capable of rapidly transitioning from vulnerable in sleep to alert and in full possession of its faculties at the slightest change in stimuli. grace is in a heartwarming scifi buddy comedy and meanwhile rocky is bonded with and planning on bringing home his species' equivalent of the xenomorph.

[asparklethatisblue]

Human Grace finds out that Eridian Grace grows and gets heavier very fast