Digitising Kannada: A work in progress
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The quirks of automated translation often make for amusing anecdotes. | Photo Credit: IMAGING: SEBASTIAN FRANCIS
C.S. Yogananda, founder of Sriranga Digital Software Technologies, remembers a funny instance of coming across a post on X around two years ago. Originally written in Kannada, the post, after machine translation, took on an entirely different meaning.
In Kannada, he wrote ‘ಸಹಾಯ ಮಾಡಿದವರನ್ನ ಮರೀಬಾರ್ದು ( Sahaya madidavaranna mareebardu) , which translates to ‘One should not forget those who helped’. X’s default translation in 2024-25 read, “Kill those who helped you.”
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