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Just a reminder to never trust Google Translate (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago by hypertown@lemmy.world to c/japaneselanguage@sopuli.xyz

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[–] 1Fuji2Taka3Nasubi@lemmy.zip 17 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

This problem stems from この先 being able to mean “ahead from here in space”, or in time which (mis)translated to “the future”. Without proper context (that it is a sign on a road) the translation software had to make a guess, and it guessed wrong.

It may be possible to infer from 前へ行く in the second sentence that it is more likely referring to space than time, but I still think it is possible to construct some similar sentences which even humans might misunderstand.