Dear Russian Speakers...

Can you translate this for me in a way that makes sense? Its a review comment on my game, but the translation is... well lost in translation.

Код ашибки вылезал патом сама игра впустилась баг Вирус

The translation I have is:

Code ashibki Pat got out the game itself to let a bug virus


Obviously, that makes no sense to me.

Thanks!

 

I can tell that second word means error.

 

No Russian speakers have discovered this yet, so I'll continue the trend of suggesting completely random things

I got: "Error licked then she started up the game a bug virus"
I'm going to guess either it crashed on launch after selecting resolution, or Kaspersky freaked out and gave a false positive.

 

wheres @alexzzzz when you need him

 

I had impression that you know russian? Anyway.

The sentence is heavily misspelled and translates as "eror code showid than de game isself ssstarted bug virus".

I guess poster meant "The game displayed error code and only started after that, must be a bug/virus", but because of misspelling it is ambiguous and orb's scenario is plausible.

 

Nah I just Google Translate :S


Anyway, thanks for that.

 

Who is Pat?

 

He says: "There was a code error, then game would (be buggy) crash. Virus"

In other words, the game becomes buggy and crashes, and he calls it a "virus".

 

Hey James - I don't speak Russian, but to me this sounds like it's a specific mobile make/model error, unless you've received other reports of the same thing happening. Might be the specific type of phone they are using.
I'd ask - which make/model they are using.

 

If you have any clout over on steam - you might get it translated over there. Seems there are a lot of Russian speakers in the game threads. Check the SpinTires thread.

 

Found where you might be able to find someone to help
http://www.unity3d.ru/distribution/index.php

 

LOOOL

 

The spelling is really bad in this one. As already mentioned, there was an error and then something happened. There is a word that doesn't make any sense in this context, so the game either started, but he still calls it a virus, or it crashed and he calls it a virus.

P.S. I wouldn't bother with people that have such spelling, lol. It could very well be their own fault that the game doesn't run.

 

Yeah, looks like a PEBKAC (class ID ten tee).

 

Yeah im never too worried about reviews like this... was just curious as to what he was trying to say.

 

I would guess that it's meant to be "An error code appeared, then the game started up. So there's a bug. Virus." where Virus is the person's nickname. But it's just a guess. No grammar detected.

 

I don't speak any human language very well, but I think if the user called your application a virus then maybe it crashed in a way that either crashed the phone or was leaking memory when they thought they closed it and noticed their device slow down.

 

My guess would be 'A coding error in the game led to a derived virus named Pat escaping into the free.'

 

As people continue to write I'll write everything I can think of it:
1. Original "Код ашибки вылезал патом сама игра впустилась баг Вирус"
2. Fixed orphography "Код ошибки вылезал потом сама игра запустилась баг Вирус"
3.1. Direct word-to-word translation "Code of error popped up then the game started bug Virus"
3.2. Another way to translate "Code of error popped up then game itself started bug Virus"
Notes:
* predicate "of" doesn't exist in original text, but Russian syntaxis doesn't require any predicate here;
* "сама игра" most likely means "the game", but can mean "game itself"("herself" in original as Russian "game" is female gender) - small uncertainty;
* Russian syntax requires comma before "потом"(="then"), didn't include fix as in english that's not mandatory afaik.
* (about "Virus")Words start with capital letters in same cases as in english - first word in sentence, names, etc with only exception when using country names as adjective. Is Virus a name? Or a country? Or orphographic error? I leave it up to you.

4. In my view assumed interpretation: "Error code popped up, then the game started. Was that a bug or virus?"
So first some error popped up, but then the game started. Was that error a bug? or a virus?

P.S. Google translate facts: Google translated that as

Let's think about its errors a bit:
translated "вылИзать" is closer to "lick out" while "вылЕзать" is "get out of"(like "get out of bed") or can be used as "pop up"(like "it popped up out of pile"). Google orphographic checker doesn't think, it just does.
translated "сама" (="herself") as "she started up the". I think google tried to think ahead of that phrase. Maybe google linked "she" and "game" and got the most common usage for them?
translate lost "код"(="code"). Where did it go?

 

The word "патом" is not even a Russian word. It's a misspelling of the word "потом", which means "then"

While "вылезал" does mean lick, there's a different pronunciation of it, which means "came up" or "popped-up"

 

I've written all about those in previous post.

 

Didn't know Russian is so popular.

It is.
There is a river named "Big Patom".
Also, it can be interpreted as one of the forms of given name "Pat" if you assume that writer forgot to use uppercase letter. Google falls for that one.

It doesn't mean "lick", unless misspelled. Literally it means "(someone or something of male gender) has been appearing/appeared/has been crawling out/crawled out".

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Now, why is there so much attention to that sentence?

 

I'm more worried that Google linked "lick" into it. Have they indexed a lot of sites involving licking games?

Because it's so funny! A mix of bad spelling and computer translations means guaranteed comedy

 

Well google translate autocorrects and says this:

Код ошибки вылизал потом сама игра запустилась баг Вирус

translates to this:

Error Code licked then she started up a game bug virus

which isn't that confusing in English slang, American English at least, means the creation of the virus was purposeful and the Error Code (aka known bug) was the entry point into the system. 'Security Bulletin 'Error Code' defeated and then she (the host computer) started up a game bug virus.'

With uncorrected spelling the sentence seems to say what I thought the first time if you believe Google Translate's translation:

'Код ашибки вылезал патом сама игра впустилась баг Вирус'

Code ashibki Pat got out the game itself to let a bug virus

which seems to say that some Russian slang term for a type of computer code escaped the game itself and became a computer virus in the wild but it was accidental. You'd guess the Russian slang term was maybe something similar to the English for a computer Trojan payload.

I find it interesting mainly because I spent the 1st year of my foreign job figuring out things like that but in a different language. That was much slower then though as none of these translation programs existed.

For what it's worth, the Windows 10 translation app detects it as Serbian and translates it as:

By Pat ašibki vыlezal game vpustilasь bug Virus

Which isn't that straightforward to my because the verb wasn't translated. vpustilasь seems to be a word for 'in vain' as in 'useless effort'.

Which seems to be what Google Translate does for part of the sentence unannounced it you don't allow it to auto-correct the spelling.

 

Can't imagine that russian's reaction when he finds out his review is being discussed, analyzed and translated by dozens of game developers.

 

haha would be quite funny for sure...

 

It's more telling that none have bothered to say anything at all.