Google Translate is generally hot garbage. I’ve actually found DeepL surprisingly good especially with more “niche” languages like Finnish, although it does definitely sometimes get things hilariously wrong
To be fair, It looks like a problem with the OCR from the app rather than the translation. When I use the phone’s native OCR and copy/paste the text into DeepL Translate, I get the same result as you.
I distrust DeepL ever since I found out it translates “irritating” into german as “irritierend” (which means confusing, and is a common mistranslation for obvious reasons). Though I’m sure google translate does similar dumb things.
Duden apparently agrees but it’s a rare enough use case that I’ve never heard it used that way in my life, fair enough tho. Still not a great default tl but at least somewhat acceptable then.
Google Translate is generally hot garbage. I’ve actually found DeepL surprisingly good especially with more “niche” languages like Finnish, although it does definitely sometimes get things hilariously wrong
It seems like the sign is trying to kill me in this translation.
Is that DeepL’s app? I’ve never used it so I have no idea what the UI looks like and I didn’t try to translate the sign’s text with the web version.
Edit: out of curiosity I tried out how the web version handles this sign:
Yeah, it’s the android version.
To be fair, It looks like a problem with the OCR from the app rather than the translation. When I use the phone’s native OCR and copy/paste the text into DeepL Translate, I get the same result as you.
Ah right, that definitely makes sense. I can imagine OCR’ing Kanji could be a bit of a nightmare
I distrust DeepL ever since I found out it translates “irritating” into german as “irritierend” (which means confusing, and is a common mistranslation for obvious reasons). Though I’m sure google translate does similar dumb things.
It also does mean annoying/irritating, I don’t think it’s wrong.
Duden apparently agrees but it’s a rare enough use case that I’ve never heard it used that way in my life, fair enough tho. Still not a great default tl but at least somewhat acceptable then.
Could it be regional? I hear it relatively often in Munich in that meaning.
Maybe, since I live in the north! (Fwiw the meaning of irritating as in irritating skin is pretty common here too, just not as annoyance).