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Message Subject The once fictional Star Trek Universal Translator comes into existence.
Poster Handle Anonymous Coward
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They should test it on Finnish.

Every computer-based translator gets Finnish terribly, terribly wrong.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 72016321


German as well. They never can get the syntax right. German into straight english comes out sounding like yoda
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 7259927


Autotranslated Finnish always comes out wrong in almost every way - syntactically, grammatically and contextually. It's because we don't do prepositions and pronouns are always gender neutral (sometimes you can't deduce the gender even from the context). Futhermore, nouns are declined in a complex way.

[link to en.wikipedia.org (secure)]

Finnish language has defeated all computer-based translation systems so far.
 
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