Comments on: Nokia Ovi’s Tagalog Adsense ad is funny

By: elmer

elmer — Thu, 29 May 2008 17:25:55 +0000

Why don’t you try to translate it in tagalog (no taglish pls.)

By: James | PinoyMoneyTalk.com

James | PinoyMoneyTalk.com — Wed, 28 May 2008 16:36:44 +0000

@Hamilton and JDT, the more plausible explanation for me too for the faulty Filipino grammar is the use of a Translator Tool whose output went unchecked before the ad copy was released. I’m sure if the Nokia Ovi ad guys visited Yahoo! Answers and asked Filipinos there whether the Tagalog phrase made sense, they’d know instantly that it didn’t.

@Hamilton, the Tagalog Ovi ad appeared probably because I was reading then a Tagalog email in my Gmail inbox.

By: JDT Sign Shop

JDT Sign Shop — Tue, 27 May 2008 22:59:20 +0000

I think it is hilarious. I to have tried using those so-called crude translators before and let me tell you this, it was not very nice what came of it.

Great blog!!

JDT Sign Shop
http://www.jdtsignshop.com

By: Hamilton Chua

Hamilton Chua — Tue, 27 May 2008 08:37:34 +0000

Hey, it’s also quite possible that the original ad is in English and the text was automatically translated to tagalog by a translation engine of some sort.

May I ask if your chosen language is english or tagalog ?

I prefer english and I don’t seem to be getting any tagalog ads