KUSHINIKIZA! Google Translate SAVES BABY in Irish roadside birth Quick-thinking Irish paramedics turned to Google Translate to communicate with a pregnant woman who spoke Swahili, allowing her to safely give birth. The Cork ambulance drivers were transporting a pregnant Congolese woman to a maternity hospital last week when she went into labour. Gerry McCann and Shane Mulcahy were forced to …
Swahili support must be a lot better than their Italian or German then or she'd have given birth through her ass! I often find Google's translation is the opposite of what the original language meant. And, their German translation is so bad most of the time the words are still in German sentence structure so you have to rearrange them yourself.
Any time I see Google promoting Translate I wonder how they have the balls to advertise that crap.
Knowing a fairly large number of people from the Congo I doubt she only spoke a little French. It is likely that she spoke French with an accent but she would have understood. My French isn't great and sometimes I have to ask them to repeat what they've said and vice versa but communication has never been a problem.
Quite a large number of babies have been delivered without a common language so this seems to me to be a bit of advertising really.
Usually, whenever I absolutely need directions, or to look up a phone number or something, there's no signal and finding one involves sprinting up the nearest hill or climbing a flagpole and standing on one leg, waving the phone in one hand and sacrificing a chicken with the other, at which point the gods of telephony give me one bar for 3.8 seconds before they start giggling and take it away again.
"waving the phone in one hand and sacrificing a chicken with the other, at which point the gods of telephony give me one bar for 3.8 seconds before they start giggling and take it away again."
Obviously, you displeased the Gods by choking the chicken improperly.
On one hand, every single one of my ancestors going back billions of years has managed to figure it out. On the other hand, that's the mother of all sampling biases.
"I can't help thinking that she would still have given birth without the smartphone. Even without the paramedics to help her. Women have been doing it for a least a million years."
Indeed they have. And at one time, I believe it was even the most common cause of death in women.
They don't always just pop out with no fuss.
Google translate once helped me out massively when my dad got taken ill in Majorca (brain tumour). None of the doctors/nurses spoke much in the way of English. I spoke even less Spanish. Google translate (on the hospital's free and very good wifi) did the trick. Even down to "MRI scan" which is virtually the same in Spanish so I don't know why they couldn't understand me - perhaps my Yorkshire accent.
Oh and the nurse was an absolute stunning cute little brunette!
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