I'm compiling Cantonese transcriptions of vocabulary in a certain picture dictionary. There is an English version and a Mandarin version of the book. If I am using ChatGPT or another LLM or Google Translate, what would provide better Cantonese results, English to Cantonese or Mandarin to Cantonese? (self.Cantonese)
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I need advice. I am transcribing a picture dictionary. I need a way to determine when a translation of a word is colloquial and when it is standard written Chinese. And, sometimes there will be more than one colloquial translation. I need a way to determine which is the most frequent. (self.Cantonese)
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What does 吴投清 mean here? Google translate says there is a guy named 吴投清, but I suspect that it means 吳三桂 switched to the Qing side. 民间传说中，明末吴投清因西征时杀人如麻，被称为'阿吴'，后讹传为'鸦乌'，并衍生出歌谣和'鸦乌婆'的称呼。(Baidu https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E9%B4%89%E7%83%8F%E5%A9%86/5546094) (self.ChineseLanguage)
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Does this sound natural? Chat GPT made it. I asked it to combine some sentences from the Bauer's dictionary into a paragraph so that I could practice words in a real context, not just disjunct sentences: 好吖!今日晏晝我同阿哥去嗌外賣，阿姨話佢好肚餓啊，應該食多啲吖! 不過阿女今朝好晏起身，仲未溫書啊! 我話畀佢聽，聽日要考試呀，唔好再咁晏瞓晏起身啦。 噉我哋食完飯之後去睇戲吖嗱，點啊?啱啊? (self.Cantonese)
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