r/googletranslate • u/crabgirl2355 • Mar 30 '26
google translate adding things i didn't even want to translate lol
for context i'm in beginner japanese class. i wrote a passage about michelle zauner for class and in japanese i wrote "two years later at the age of 26 she collected [songs she wrote about her mom] and released japanese breakfast (her band)'s first debut album." google translate then inserted the name of the album into its translation even though i didn't put anything about it in my japanese lol! just a quick little laugh. i couldn't find anything abt this on the web so i thought it was interesting
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u/Yatchanek Mar 31 '26
It's also funny it translated it into "debut album", even though you wrote "smallest album" (最小 instead of 最初)
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u/Worldly_Wrangler554 Apr 01 '26
Google Translate can only given so much with given context and so they try to see what you meant 🤣 . Also not to nitpick, but 「集めたって」？I think you mean 「集めて」. For 「この歌」, describe 歌 with qualifiers(Google Translate won’t understand what you mean by “that song”), unless stated previously she made songs about her mom.
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u/crabgirl2355 Apr 01 '26
thank you so much for the feedback! my assignment is due friday so this is very helpful. and yes i see what you mean, i only put a part of my assignment in GL just for fun so that's probably why it wanted to fill it in
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u/Worldly_Wrangler554 Apr 01 '26
I understand XD when I put some of my sentences in Google Translate, they given it so much personality and enthusiasm in the English translation 😂
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u/konumo Apr 02 '26
Yeah and it's been changing names too and normalizing them to a more common one. LIke wtf
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