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PRESS START TO TRANSLATE: THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU LET A COMPUTER TRANSLATE

Clyde Mandelin



 

What do you get if you cross a revolutionary Japanese RPG from the early 1990s with a revolutionary computerized translator using the latest neural network technology? Grammatically pristine, very funny nonsense. In "press start to translate", Clyde "Tomato" Mandelin explains why the characters in this machine-translated version of Final Fantasy IV are obsessed with eagles, potatoes, dishware, and and some guy named Larry; why they're so eager to offer Japanese travel itineraries, and why the enema is saying that you should not wear a basketball. Along the way you'll learn about translation from a human and machine perspective. But you won't learn where Google Translate got that basketball from. Some machine translation secrets can never be revealed.

 

PUBLICATION DETAILS

LANGUAGE

BINDING

EDITION

ISBN

YEAR

PAGES

English

Paperback

9781945908866

2017

224

 

TAGS


Publishers: #Fangamer (Fangamer)

Languages: #English

Format: #Paperback

Accessibility: N/A

Year: #Year2017


Companies:

#SquareEnix (Squaresoft, Square Enix)


Public Figures:

N/A


Games:

#FinalFantasy (#FinalFantasyIV [Final Fantasy 4, FF4, FFIV, Final Fantasy IV])


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