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Paramedics Use Google Translate While Delivering Baby
First time accepted submitter myatari writes Irish paramedics transporting a pregnant Congolese woman to a maternity hospital in Cork had to use some quick thinking when the mum-to-be went into labor en-route. The two paramedics (neither of whom speak Swahili) fired up Google Translate to communicate via English-Swahili and successfully delivered baby girl "Brigid" (named after an Irish Saint no less!).
...and I use translation services (either via google, or more usually a paid up telephone translation service provided by my employer) semi-regularly!
I wonder what would have happened had they not had Google Translate. A boy?
Given that the official language of both Congos (DRC and RC) is French, couldn't they just have tried that?
Swahili is not a language commonly spoken in either Congo.
I use google translate pretty often with my foreign patients. My practice is located in the coast of Spain and even though I also speak french and german, sometimes I must deal with scandinavians, russians and eastern europeans.
It's great that it worked out for them, but sometimes translations don't come out quite right.
"You'll get nothing, and you'll like it!"
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The google translations are a lot better, but I found out that if I go from, say french to arabic to english, instead of directly from french to english, the idioms seem to be translated better.
go figure......
Rational thought and ubiquitous technology solve a problem. News at 11.
Based in Finland, I've used google translate several times when communicating face-to-face with our Russian neighbours ... in case they do not speak english.
It has always worked fine and I've made the sale every time :)
As an atheist, fuck for having stupidity and fairy tales mixed with "news".
I'm a husband and I feel that google translate is missing the most important language: "english"->"wife". When she says "Do I look ok in this dress?" and I say "yep.", she seems to hear something different.
It'd help clear up many misunderstandings.
No. Apparently the lady spoke Swahili not French. Did you even read the summary you moron?
It was great to hear your well-formed opinion too, Mr. Crusty Cynic.
Actually I am pretty sure they delivered a future Nobel Laureate. How is your Nobel Laureate goal coming up BTW?
Sorry - Congolese woman, not Somalian. The point is exactly the same.
You should learn to read. How did you get from Congolese to Somalia?
Because of how they named a baby, you wish an entire family and the doctors that treated them died?
Because they named it the same name as some historical human?
You reflect poorly on athiesm.
Google translate helps immigrants to usurp the locals.
it is not me hiding behing AC. About "historical" a big meh. Almost every name as a pagan/"saint" related to. It is just the stupidity of translating hey great, given a saint/Christian name instead of an African one. Do you want me to elaborate more on that?
Shouldn't the title say "Veterinarians Use Google Translate While Delivering Baby"?
This is stupid for at least two reasons. The first reason you know well, and this is why you hide behind an AC. The second reason is because Google Translate only translates to human languages and even though, in a different story, the subject would be an animal, instead of a Woman as it is in TFS/TFA, G.T. would be of no use.
Slashdot, fix the reply notifications... You won't get away with it...
I'm a husband and I feel that google translate is missing the most important language: "english"->"wife". When she says "Do I look ok in this dress?" and I say "yep.", she seems to hear something different.
It'd help clear up many misunderstandings.
Ah, the typical "insecure wife" bullshit. Your mistake is to try to deal with it.
If you want it to stop. Whenever she starts some bullshit, just leave. Don't say anything. Go for a one hour walk or whatever.
The two paramedics (neither of whom speak Swahili) fired up Google Translate to communicate via English-Swahili and successfully delivered baby girl "Brigid" (named after an Irish Saint no less!).
There's a bit of an unwritten implication in that use of the word "and," but I suspect the paramedics would probably have been able to deliver the baby without Google's help.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
Brigid, or in the local spelling "Mhroughairidd".
...but I thought DR Congo was an inherently medically qualified country, with all residents capable of delivering their own children, providing they had a steady supply of Um Bongo.
Ah, the typical "insecure wife" bullshit. Your mistake is to try to deal with it.
If you want it to stop. Whenever she starts some bullshit, just leave. Don't say anything. Go for a one hour walk or whatever.
... said the non-married man.
Why is an african woman giving birth in Cork? Because the bottle was empty.
The trick is that you give her an answer but not an answer to specifically her question, and then shift it to a different conversation. For instance:
Wife: Honey, do I look ok in this dress?
Husband: Babe, you look great in everything but even better out of it.
If you follow it up with trying to get her out of it, and do it enough times, eventually she'll start to ask you less. Or at least that is what I hope will someday happen with my wife.
Do I look ok in this dress?
"Ok? No, you look amazing. I can't wait to get you out of it."
"That dress is ok, but it would look better on the floor."
Don't answer yes or no. Remind her of how easily she can wrap you around her little finger.
09F91102 no, 455FE104 nope, F190A1E8 uh-uh, 7A5F8A09 that's not it, C87294CE no. Ah! 452F6E403CDF10714E41DFAA257D313F.
Google translate can be pretty useful at the conception stage too.
yrs ago we had a crew replacing siding on our house that stopped & refused to go back to work b/c they saw a snake. I was able to use google translate w/my laptop to show them there's only a few venomous species in georgia & this wasn't one of them (was actually able to identify it - their descriptions led to finding a picture & a bunch of: "oh, si! no est problema! gracias!"
I remember thinking "wow! what an amazing world we live in now!"
"A certain woman who had taken the vow of chastity fell, through youthful desire of pleasure and her womb swelled with child. Brigid, exercising the most potent strength of her ineffable faith, blessed her, causing the child to disappear, without coming to birth, and without pain. She faithfully returned the woman to health and to penance."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Brigid
Was the mother of that child trying to hint something with that choice of name?
Stop worrying about the risks of nuclear power and start worrying about the risks of not using nuclear power.
I'm a husband and I feel that google translate is missing the most important language: "english"->"wife". When she says "Do I look ok in this dress?" and I say "yep.", she seems to hear something different.
It'd help clear up many misunderstandings.
Jokes aside, men misunderstand the question. Men hear "Question! Please respond to my question!" when in fact, the words the woman spoke are not a question at all. These words are an invitation to a conversation about style and fashion. The woman is angry that the man dismissed her invitation to have a discussion. The question is irrelevant.
Even those who arrange and design shrubberies are under considerable economic stress at this period in history.
Wife: "Honey does this dress make me look fat?"
Husband: "No baby, not at all, it's your big ass that does that."
Ya, ok, that will work.
can't buy this kind of PR. I expect a commercial in the near future.
I'm taking notes.
I don't blame you. That freaking country killed a lady in the name of religion by not providing proper care. What good is religion when it cannot have any respect for human life http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D...
You should learn how to rebut somebody's argument... Nice try at avoiding the issue though.
So you believe that white people don't have the right to simple live around their own race, nor the right to simply have their own countries, yet all other races DO have that right, according to you? Ignorant cretin.
it does. you just have to have some spine
Cherokee wasn't the only Native American language (ignoring that it's actually a form of Iroquois to boot) on the continent... while funny, XKCD is not some arbiter of righteous thought. While the other AC is certainly extreme in his opinion, the notion that citizens should all speak at least one language in common is a necessary part of democracy and free enlightened society. If people can't communicate than the transference of ideas is hampered. Further, lack of communication and ability to socialize with groups of people leads to a less intermixed society. The results of that are pretty obvious; discrimination, lack of national unity, lack of empathy, etc. Further, people from groups who can not communicate with the broader spectrum of a nation's society are left out of the national dialogue, their concerns and ideas may not be considered when debating national policy. Another possibility, and in some ways a worse one, is that they're voice as it were is appropriated by another person or group to further their own agenda.
Have gnu, will travel.
"Lack of national unity" isn't necessarily a bad thing.
http://alternatives.rzero.com/
Go back to the MRA hole you crawled out of, tough guy.
Or maybe the Irish goddess.
http://alternatives.rzero.com/
How did Celtic paganism harm human progress? (Because that's where the name "Brigid" comes from.)
As an atheist, I'm glad that everyone lived.
if (dress.price > 100.00) {
return "That dress makes you look fat.";
}
To a certain extent no it's not. But if a country becomes too fractured, it can no longer function as a country serving all its people. Iraq is kind of an example of this. Tensions between Sunni/Shia/Kurds has led to an inability of the Iraqi government to adequately hold these groups together. And has allowed for the severe persecution of minorities, like the Yazidis.
Heterogeneous societies require a certain level of national unity to competently function.
Didn't the Indians go to North America because they didn't want to learn Chinese?
The new mother should really learn Irish as it is the official national language!
http://www.acetonestudio.com
You were doing OK there until you typed 'they're'. Next!
http://www.acetonestudio.com
Can this be used for making babies?
Prove anything by multiplying Huge Number times Tiny Number
Not to mention it can leave the group that refuses to at least learn isolated which in turn limits their chances for advancement. For example in my area there is two groups that refuse to speak anything but their native tongue, the Mexicans and the Ebonic speaking black neighborhood. In both cases they live in ghettos, complete with higher crime and drug abuse. in both cases they will never be hired in any job which in any way has any interaction with the public (for obvious reasons) which limits their chances for employment. In both cases the jobs they CAN get always end up being the dead end minimum wage jobs, and in both cases whenever I've had to work a job at a place where any of them had been hired it quickly became obvious that they were looked down upon because their coworkers couldn't understand them and they refused to even attempt to learn enough job specific English to facilitate ease of communication while working.
So ultimately by refusing to interact with those around them its the ones that refuse to adapt to the common language that are hurt the most. Oh and before somebody screams "that's raciss!" over the Ebonics? Just try looking up a southern Ebonics speaker video and see how many words you can understand before you get lost, between the region specific nature of the slang combined with the unconventional usage of certain words (such as the way the word "be" can be past, present, and future tense) it quickly becomes like that scene in Airplane! where they had to get the woman that spoke jive to translate.
ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.
Why do people like you see ignorance as a virtue?
If a person kept a child from learning to talk we would see that as abuse and neglect.
If a person kept a child from learning to read we would see that as abuse and neglect.
When a person willfully neglects from learning the local language of the place they live, that is them neglecting themselves.
People who willfully neglect to take care of those they are responsible for are rightfully looked down upon in effectively every society. Those who willfully neglect themselves in such fundamental ways are within that category and worthy of the utmost contempt.
Here how to say it correctly:
You look like a mules butt.... of course you look beautiful, you look as beautiful as the day I found you... at the farm!
I'm not entirely sure Iraq should be called a country. That's only slightly facetious.
Like Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia, it was created by treaties between other countries. Czechoslovakia worked out OK (now Slovakia and the Czech Republic) but Yugoslavia fared badly when the colonial power withdrew.
The same could be said for many of the nations of Africa with bloody post-colonial histories.
There's no time like the present. Well, the past used to be.
They're a country, they're a political entity that has borders that are recognized by other countries. The countries you listed were still countries, and they too would fit into my argument. You had multiple strong cultural or political identities that were unwilling or unable to interact civilly with each other. The result is always a break up, usually preceded by a civil war.
Language doesn't dictate that such things like that would happen, but it usually doesn't help. India may be an example of a country with multiple languages (hundreds if not thousands of sub dialects) and the ability to stay intact. But India has mandated a national language. They also have a strong cultural identity.
The United States does not have these things. We have an amorphous cultural identity based on intangible political and philosophical beliefs. We don't have a national language; and a part of our national identity comes from the notion that established institutions and norms are always up to being uprooted and replaced. You can't make the kind of structural redesign that our founding fathers intended when the populace is unable, or unwilling, to adequately communicate their ideas with each other.
My point, which apparently I did not make very clearly, is that nations created as administrative units by empires (e.g. Rwanda) and which later gain independence, and those created in peace treaties (e.g. Yugoslavia) tend to have bloody histories after the colonial powers withdraw.
Countries created by federation (e.g. the 13 colonies of the United States of America, Switzerland) or annexation/consolidation (e.g. the USA, the UK excluding Ireland) tend to be less troubled by ethnic and/or religious conflicts.
There's no time like the present. Well, the past used to be.
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