Re: "Failed to search TKK" with google-translate

[Emanuel Berg <moasen@zoho.com>]

Tomas Nordin wrote:

> Yes, but
>
>      talmeter -> TALMETER
>
> That's what the older guys call the
> measuring tape.

I don't know even broadly how Google translate
works but one would assume they apply
algorithms on the internet to come up with
an answer.

It works great for common words, nouns and
such, like tools and actually a lot of things
that are considerably more odd, e.g.,

    burspråk <-> bay window

but it works bad for phrases, expressions and
idioms; and even worse for arcane words that
probably to a large extent aren't even on the
internet, so by definition can't be found, or
can't without a razor-sharp algorithm at least,
if there are but a few occurrences of them.

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