I know that users can submit suggestions for translation corrections. Although I don’t know how Google Translate’s algorithm works, I have a feeling that with enough of the same contributions the “correction” becomes canon.
So why translate “country” as 國家 / 地區?
Interestingly, just last month I had written something in Chinese (maybe an online comment?) regarding Taiwan and I used the word 國家, and a Chinese netizen (I assume because of their use of simplified characters) “helped my Chinese” and said that I should write 國家/地區.
Maybe this sounds conspiracy theory-ish, but do you think PRC folks/bots are making these “corrections” to Google Translate?
Did you help the netizen write PRC as “Peking region and surroundings”?
But Taiwan isn’t a country. Taiwan doesn’t officially exist. RoC is a region or island which is correct. (And as of now, officially, includes the area currently occupied by the PRC)
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^^^ notice how “taiwan” is not automatically capitalized to “Taiwan” when writing it in the middle of a sentence - iPhone is smart enough to capitalize the rest of them when writing a string of countries but not Taiwan…Taipei is capitalized automatically but not Taiwan, pretty interesting right? - Anyone else have this issue?
I have noticed a lot of weird fuggery on translate as well. But not sure if its just connecting dots where there arent any. Regardless of.china, i notice that newer google and microsoft products are becomming ever more invasive and annoying in general.
I appreciate the comments and related passion, but whether Taiwan is/isn’t a country wasn’t my main point here; I was simply wondering about this translation of the word country as 國家/地區 and what’s triggering it.
It seems the 國家/地區 translation is triggered by “outside of [country name].” I wonder why that is. Is it some grammar point that I don’t understand? Because this translation isn’t across-the-board, I’m pretty sure it isn’t some PRC conspiracy now, lol.
I’m thinking it has to do with your account…just like how Google is optimized for what you want to see. Go into incognito mode, use another browser, clear cookies, etc…let us know how it goes.