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1. Benjamin Hollon :unverified: (benjaminhollon@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 06-Jan-2022 16:03:51 UTC Benjamin Hollon :unverified:

   Here’s the deal: if you have RSS on your personal blog and reply with the link, I’ll follow you.

   I also promise to read at least a few of your articles. :)

   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 08-Jan-2022 13:44:56 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     • Erik Hjärtberg
     @benjaminhollon @hjartberg DeepL, Bing Translate and Google Translate all do Swedish to English pretty accurately. 😉
   • Erik Hjärtberg (hjartberg@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 08-Jan-2022 13:44:57 UTC Erik Hjärtberg

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     @benjaminhollon http://erikhjartberg.se/feed

   • Benjamin Hollon :unverified: (benjaminhollon@fosstodon.org)'s status on Saturday, 08-Jan-2022 13:44:57 UTC Benjamin Hollon :unverified:

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     • Erik Hjärtberg

     @hjartberg Hey; I took a look at this, but I don't know Swedish so I'm not going to be able to read any of your articles.

     Sorry about that; I probably should have mentioned it in my post.

   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 08-Jan-2022 14:27:44 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     • Erik Hjärtberg
     @hjartberg @benjaminhollon That's probably true. Also translating naively between Germanic languages is far more likely to succeed than between completely unrelated language families. Word-for-word translation is almost 80% correct.
     
     (statistic made up on the spot)
   • Benjamin Hollon :unverified: (benjaminhollon@fosstodon.org)'s status on Saturday, 08-Jan-2022 14:27:45 UTC Benjamin Hollon :unverified:

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     • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅
     • Erik Hjärtberg

     @clacke @hjartberg Well then, I'll try that out. :)

     In my limited experience doing Mandarin-English translations with Google Translate it wasn't fantastic so this possibility didn't immediately leap to mind.

   • Erik Hjärtberg (hjartberg@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 08-Jan-2022 14:27:45 UTC Erik Hjärtberg

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     • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

     @benjaminhollon @clacke I read somewhere that all the multilingual documents from the European Union is the reason why Google works for swedish language.

   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 09-Jan-2022 08:59:49 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     • Erik Hjärtberg
     To be clear, DeepL, Translate and Translate are all far better than word-for-word translation and often I only have nuance or style complaints on the translation.
     
     That's for formal Swedish, of course. Depending on author style, blogs or microblogs may be impossible for even a human to translate unless they're clued in.
     
     @hjartberg @benjaminhollon