Articles about language, translation, and the quirks of machine learning.
What happens when you forget a comma or period? In the Mixer, it can change the meaning of a quote — sometimes in disturbing ways.
Shakespeare Asked a Question. Five Languages Turned It Into a Quiz.
Finnish, Hungarian, Thai, Japanese — some languages are structurally alien to English. Here's why that makes them perfect for the mixer, plus Macbeth and David Bowie to prove the point.
Bryant Oden's classic children's song, sent through Acehnese, Dutch, Acholi, Belarusian, and Arabic. The duck still wants grapes. Mostly.
It started with two teenagers laughing for hours at a YouTube channel, a clunky copy-paste workflow, and one IT professional thinking: this could easily be scripted.
From Cold War code-breaking to neural networks — how machine translation went from a government project to something in everyone's pocket.
There's a reason mistranslations make us laugh. We explore the linguistics behind why telephone-game translations are so reliably funny.