Comment on Japan anon complains about Google

• lvxferre@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yes! Video related, that’s me!

  Serious now. It’s just that I don’t recall which Latin descendants Google support, and I’m not going to check it.

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  • suction@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I had 6 years of Latin in school and remember less than 1% of it. Talk about a waste of time. Bada bing bada boom shoulda learned Italian rather.

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    • lvxferre@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Sure. I’m not saying that Latin is useful for most people. It isn’t; I don’t expect most people to fuck around with Plautus, Cicero, Catullus etc. I’m saying that Yandex Translate is useful for me because of decent support for Latin, while Google offers better support for a handful of Latin descendants aka Romance languages (like Italian).

      And it’s mostly due to a coincidence - because the platform was made by Russian speakers and Russian happens to still keep a similar case system as Latin does.

      (…anche parlo italiano, ma davvero per italiano non uso nessuno - se non so qualcosa uso dizionari. Dà meno lavoro.)

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      • suction@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Fuhgeddaboudit

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