Not being able to speak Thai I often use google translate.  At times when I show a Thai the translation they seem even more confused than before.  My Thai fiance laughs at time when I show her various translations.  She says they are at times undecipherable. Obviously it works both ways, Here a a couple of examples of people translating into English that are hilarious.


  

She sure looks double breasted to me ????  Glad the top is removable. 

 

1 hour ago, Thomas J said:

Glad the top is removable

But remove the "sponge" and be disappointed ????

@Thomas J

 

The same happened to me, when I first came to Thailand and didn't know a word of Thai.

 

A Thai guy whipped out a translator in his handphone and started talking to it. The translation was rubbish.

 

Google translator or whatever translator won't be as smart as a human. They are just machines, they can translate simple words or sentences correctly but not every complicated sentence in the language.

 

That's something that most people don't understand.

On my phone I have a good translator downloaded from an on line site it is very good. 

Had this discussion before the app on the screen is 2 round shapes one with a Thai flag and the other with a Union Jack and says translate underneath,  it works very well, had no problem when using it. 

 

The problem with Thailand translation is they use so many words just to say a simple one word English 'please'  for just one example.

 

When I put 'please' about 9 different words in Thai come up, I  just use the one I know, IMHO to be kind the Thai language is well over top and too complicated, no wonder kids have a problem with English there too busy learning Thai. 

Google is overstrained by that quite unusal differing male/female pronoun (pŏm / chăn).

If you let it translate "my name is Marc" it will sound to Thai people as if you are a female/ladyboy ????

I didn't find a trick to have it selected/switched to male.