to dirprocess: translating Tibetan                                            rev 3 dec 2021

Category: translating


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Bing translation:

  The new Microsoft Bing Tibetan translation tool is amazing. 
  But a couple of caveats are worth mentioning:
  1) English or Chinese translation to Tibetan language is pretty good 
     but the other way round sucks. 
     (1/3) 

  2) China is translated as ཀྲུང་གོ། (ZHONGGUO or middle kingdom) 
     instead of རྒྱ་ནག (Tibetans call China Gyanak).  
     Tibet is translated as བོད་ལྗོངས། (“Tibet Autonomous Region”) 
     instead of simply བོད། 
     (Bod is the geographical term for the three Tibetan traditional provinces). 
     (2/3)

  3) What this means is that Bing Tibetan translation is an amazing tool, 
     but it is not apolitical. 
     Microsoft’s initiative to bridge the digital divide is laudable 
     but one should also keep a tab on the corporation's perhaps 
     inadvertent amplification of CCP’s discourse power.
     (3/3)

  -- Tenzin Norgay  @tenzin_norgay
  2 dec 2021
  https://mobile.twitter.com/tenzin_norgay/status/1466117008681013250


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