03:13 Feb 18, 2021 |
Japanese to English translations [PRO] Tech/Engineering - Computers: Software / search engine / platform | |||||||
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4 | インド |
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4 | "Try refining your search" |
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3 | Perform a keyword search for "in India", "in India", etc. |
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2 | (see explanation) |
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(see explanation) Explanation: If I understood everything correctly, wouldn't it still work to use ンド > India and インドネシア > Indonesia? The second part of their suggestion is recommending usage of the Boolean (-) operator, so it still makes sense to call out both. And then for the first sentence, I would indeed just say "in India" once. Apologies if I misunderstood! -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 2 hrs (2021-02-18 05:29:46 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- (response to your comment) Oh goodness, I face-palmed after reading that and thinking about it again. I did not think about that carefully enough, and now I see it clearly! Are you in contact with the end client? I wonder if this question could maybe be omitted from the English version of their FAQ? If it's totally impossible to do so, I think it will probably have to just look a little strange to those viewing the English version, or perhaps a small explanatory phrase could be added? I've run into these kinds of situations before and worked with the client to reach a solution such as one of those. |
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Perform a keyword search for "in India", "in India", etc. Explanation: I don't quite understand all the points under discussion, but I can provide a translation of the two sentences you are asking about. Literally they mean the following: ______________ Perform a keyword search for "in India", "in India", etc. Or search for "-Indonesia [space] India". ______________ Notes: 1. Although the two forms "インドにて" and "インドで" are not identical, they have the same meaning, i.e., "in India". ("で" is the modern, contracted form of "にて", the way "it's" is the contracted form of "it is".) 2. I have translated "など" as "etc.", but it can also mean "such as" or "along the lines of". 3. "ください" ("kudasai") at the end of each sentence could also be literally translated as "please", but translators typically omit it when translating instructions such as these. 4. As you have pointed out, the Japanese name for Indonesia ("in-do-ne-shi-a") happens to contain the beginning of the Japanese name for India ("in-do"), i.e., in Japanese, the name for "India" is necessarily a substring of the name for "Indonesia". In addition, "にて" (ni-te) and "で" (de) both mean "in" in English, and "in", in English, happens to be identical to the beginning of both "India" and "Indonesia". So in Japanese the two country names contain identical strings, while in English the preposition is identical with the beginning of each of the country names. So yes, you may need to come up with a different example. 5. You write "Can I search only for "インド", as the search results include "インドネシア" ?" With a search engine like Google, putting quotation marks around a word excludes results having longer character strings that include that word (e.g., a Google search for "Bridge" (with quotation marks) will not return any results having "Bridgeman"), but it sounds like the search engine you are working with does not work that way, that it works more like a text search in Excel or Word. |
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インド Explanation: Presumably the text is trying to imply that without using the proper search terms then you will end up with search results regarding インドネシア, even if you only type インド. As a solution I recommend finding a similar comparison in English, such as Niger and Nigeria |
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"Try refining your search" Explanation: I agree that it's a little pointless using this exact example in the English translation, especially since "Indonesia" and "India" are spelled quite differently in English. We also have spaces between words in English, meaning we won't have this exact problem anyway. If you want to localize the answer, then I suggest using the phrase "Try refining your search..." For example, if someone searched for "Washington", they'd get results for Washington (state), Washington D.C, and George Washington. So you could say something like: "To get more relevant results, try refining your search to "Washington state" or "state of Washington". |
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