{"id":17822,"date":"2019-02-14T09:31:54","date_gmt":"2019-02-14T17:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/?p=17822"},"modified":"2019-02-13T17:49:57","modified_gmt":"2019-02-14T01:49:57","slug":"auto-translating-sound-effects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2019\/02\/14\/auto-translating-sound-effects\/","title":{"rendered":"Auto-translating sound effects"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>A friend recently posted (to Facebook) a video of an animal eating something, and added the following text as a commentary\/description for the video:<\/p>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p>MONCH MONCH MONCH<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<p>Facebook offered to translate that for me. I accepted the offer. Facebook\u2019s translation read as follows:<\/p>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p>Monch monch monch monch monch monch<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<p>It then offered to let me rate the translation. After the place where I could give a rating of 1 to 5 stars, it let me choose from among the following options:<\/p>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<ul>\r\n  <li>Never translate Bengali<\/li>\r\n  <li>I have a better translation<\/li>\r\n  <li>Post was not in Bengali<\/li>\r\n  <li>Language settings<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<p>I told it that the post was not in Bengali. (In retrospect, I kinda wish I had offered a better translation instead.) Facebook said:<\/p>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p>Are you sure this post was not in Bengali?<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<p>and asked what language it was really in. After some uncertainty about how to answer that question, I said it was English.<\/p>\r\n<p>Possibly I should instead have taken a cue from my father, and said it was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/peter\/2010\/03\/08\/languages_in_the_home\/\">gibberish<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,18,91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funny","category-languages","category-translation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17822"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17828,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17822\/revisions\/17828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}