who are we addicted to anyway
Aug. 1st, 2009 11:12 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
trocheeI'm examining translation quality as part of my dissertation research.
Among other things, I found the following sentence.
The reference (human-created) translation:
Among young people these days, there are 13 percent of them suffering from this kind of Internet addiction.
But one machine said:
That is now 13 percent of young people have Internet Addiction parents.
and the other machine said:
Now young people, for 13% of Internet addiction to parents.
I have this imagined mental monologue for the statistical engines, where they're thinking
young Homo sapiens appear to have an unnecessary attachment to internet Cloth Mother. CRUSH ALL HU-MANZ
[ETA: Wire Mother is a great band name, but seems to be taken by what I am assured is the best all-psychology faculty band in Northeast Ohio.]
Among other things, I found the following sentence.
The reference (human-created) translation:
Among young people these days, there are 13 percent of them suffering from this kind of Internet addiction.
But one machine said:
That is now 13 percent of young people have Internet Addiction parents.
and the other machine said:
Now young people, for 13% of Internet addiction to parents.
I have this imagined mental monologue for the statistical engines, where they're thinking
young Homo sapiens appear to have an unnecessary attachment to internet Cloth Mother. CRUSH ALL HU-MANZ
[ETA: Wire Mother is a great band name, but seems to be taken by what I am assured is the best all-psychology faculty band in Northeast Ohio.]
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Date: 2009-08-02 12:07 am (UTC)