Ligurian regional councilor of the League against Google Translate because it translates badly in Ligurian, and calls a question in the regional council

League against Google Translate: the case reaches the Regional Council

“Google has also included the ‘Ligurian language’ in Google Translate, its translation application,” the councilor says. “While I understand the importance they have given it by placing it in a widely used automatic translator, which in this way enhances our local traditions, we cannot help but notice the many translation errors of the system, both in the spelling of words, which does not respect their pronunciation, and in the use of non-existent terms that are deliberately introduced for delirious etymological reasons, such as: deqixon, satisfaqion, exerqito, etc. The ‘Ligurian language’ is full of idiomatic expressions that often do not have literal translations and that require a cultural understanding that automatic translators may not have. If you try to insert sentences in Italian into the application to be translated into Ligurian, you get invented translations or translations in a language that no one has ever spoken in Liguria.” « The risk is that many lovers of the ‘Ligurian language’ – Viale continues – use the translator without knowing that these translations are incorrect and that they will spread an idiom that has never been spoken, creating irreparable cultural damage to our Territory, our Communities and our Traditions.

…in Liguria they actually have a big problem at the moment: Google Translate, because Toti’s lawyers didn’t understand/translate well the arrest warrant documents written in Ligurian by the Genoa prosecutor’s office =)