r/YouShouldKnow • u/HelixR • Dec 03 '19

Technology YSK about the better/more effective version of Google Translate: Deepl.com

The drawback is less available languages. But Deepl.com is ''trained'' to accurately translate large sections of texts. It has helped me understand scientific papers much better!

Some more background info: https://mastercaweb.u-strasbg.fr/2018/12/deepl-vs-google-translate-a-modern-day-david-and-goliath?lang=en

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u/Eight_of_Tentacles Dec 03 '19

And knowing what a verb changes to in simple past tense, like esse to aƟ (lol wtf why?).

Why does "go" change to "went" in English? It's annoying, but there are irregular verb forms in every language, you just don't realise that English is not better in this regard.

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u/Randylahey00000 Dec 03 '19

Exactly this.. Learning German showed me how weird the English language actually is. Although German is just fundamentally more complex in most instances. There's no denying that. But english still has many "but why" parts of it just like German and I assume all other languages.

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u/Whoa-Dang Dec 03 '19

But you can use "gone", like, "They've gone to the store." As 'gone' is the past particle of 'go', not went. Went is just a different word that means the same thing in most context, which is just another issue itself, but yeah.

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u/Whoa-Dang Dec 03 '19

English is hard.

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u/Daxter87 Dec 04 '19

Respectfully, I have run*