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Machine translators seem to do an especially poor job with Japanese, very often using the wrong pronoun.
Japanese to English is pretty tricky, in part because it's more standard in Japanese to fully omit words instead of using a pronoun when something is known from context. A response to "What are you doing with that book?" in English might be "I'm going to return it," but in Japanese you'd just say "Return" (返す。). So a machine translator would probably have to be very good at context to guess right a lot of the time.
It's the same in German.
Also, remember the meme "Poland cannot into space"? Syntax-wise, that's a completely valid sentence in German because at times, you don't need a main verb and the auxiliary one will do.
I have never heard of this meme before.
That’s interesting to learn, thanks for teaching me! I would like to add my observation that informal English works pretty similarly. The example conversation turning into:
“Whatcha gonna do with that book?”
“Return it.”
seems normal to my ears. I guess the difference is that the object “it” is still mandatory which is pretty helpful context for a translation machine.
This is an issue in professional translations of animes and third person pronouns. Time restraints probably also play a role. Some issues could be solved by asking the author or reading manga translations, which also could’ve gotten it wrong.
I don’t speak Japanese, but it seems to use gender in different places and uses pronouns less frequently.
For this Japanese to German is even harder than Japanese to English because even words like "translator" are gendered.
In Tensura's English dub they addressed Beretta with "she/her".
https://antifandom.com/tensura/wiki/Beretta#Trivia
Even German to English and the other way around can be tricky if you don’t have enough context.
For "I’m the translator" German has to gender translator: "Ich bin der Übersetzer"/"Ich bin die Übersetzerin"
English can struggle with sentences, where it has to use madam or sir with second person, since German has a polite second person that is neutral. "Ich danke Ihnen" to "Thank you, sir"/"Thank you, madam"