Comment on Google mistranslates the word because it uses English as a medium(probs).
balsoft@lemmy.ml 2 weeks agoIn my experience, with the amount of mistakes similar to the one in the OP, I strongly suspect that language is somehow unbelievably close (semantically) to English then.
I decided to quickly experiment with two languages I somewhat know, and got 3/3 incorrect translations consistent with English as intermediary:
- Russian ширинка (fly, meaning “zipper on your trousers”) -> Georgian ფრენა (to fly, as in “flight”) - completely incorrect translation, consistent with English as intermediary
- Russian парковаться (to park, as in “park your car”) -> Georgian პარკი (park, meaning “green space with trees”) - completely incorrect translation, consistent with English as intermediary
- Russia лежать (to lie, as in “lie on your back”) -> Georgian ტყუილი (lie, as meaning “untruth”) - completely incorrect translation, consistent with English as intermediary
It makes exactly the same mistakes if you translate from Russian to Spanish and French too.