Laundry detergent

[Chirimoya]

I don’t know what is GT that you refer to but SpanishDict has el detergente.

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'GT' is Google Translate. I didn't dispute that detergente was correct but as NanSanPedro said "la detergente" I pointed out it was 'el' not 'la'. He has now confirmed that it was human error, not GT or SpanishDict's. Online translation programs are my pet peeve though.

 

[CDNBear]

Which begs the question, which online translator seem to introduce the least amount of errors?
Any opinion

 

[Marianopolita]

'GT' is Google Translate. I didn't dispute that detergente was correct but as NanSanPedro said "la detergente" I pointed out it was 'el' not 'la'. He has now confirmed that it was human error, not GT or SpanishDict's. Online translation programs are my pet peeve though.

Yes, I realized it was the OP that was incorrect. Go to my post #8 look at the emoji....

 

[william webster]

Always - Pampers..... for diapers in my locale

Detergent..... my wife (very picky) swears by Ariel

 

[Marianopolita]

'GT' is Google Translate. I didn't dispute that detergente was correct but as NanSanPedro said "la detergente" I pointed out it was 'el' not 'la'. He has now confirmed that it was human error, not GT or SpanishDict's. Online translation programs are my pet peeve though.

Online translators are pure entertainment for me. What I do is I come up with English sentences and then put them in Google translate to Spanish. Some of the translations are hilarious. One aspect I noticed constantly is it struggles with verb conjugations without subject pronouns. However, I can see how it can be helpful for an initial translation and then clean up to produce a proper product.

 

[Chirimoya]

Which begs the question, which online translator seem to introduce the least amount of errors?
Any opinion

Nothing matches a human translator. Having said that, online translators are mostly ok for informal, quick stuff, for translating the odd word or phrase and to get the general gist of a text, but they never produce anything fit for publication. Even for small things they can lead you in the completely wrong direction. Language has too many pitfalls that only a human brain can decipher.

I have grudgingly conceded that DeepL will produce reasonable quality text in certain language pairs but it always needs to be painstakingly reviewed for such blunders.

 

[CristoRey]

Exactly. Another example is Pampers. People often say Pampers instead of diaper or pañales en español .

Pampers y leche?
Si mami.
Ah yes...
The good 'ol days.

 

[NanSanPedro]

Nothing matches a human translator. Having said that, online translators are mostly ok for informal, quick stuff, for translating the odd word or phrase and to get the general gist of a text, but they never produce anything fit for publication. Even for small things they can lead you in the completely wrong direction. Language has too many pitfalls that only a human brain can decipher.

I have grudgingly conceded that DeepL will produce reasonable quality text in certain language pairs but it always needs to be painstakingly reviewed for such blunders.

Thanks for that. I did not know what DeepL was until you posted.

 

[JD Jones]

And don't forget Gillet for any razor. Colgate for any toothpaste.

 

[NanSanPedro]

And don't forget Gillet for any razor. Colgate for any toothpaste.

I always thought that was kreyol only. It must be island wide.

 

[Russell]

Find a better dictionary or online translator. It should be el not la as it is a masculine noun.

Detergente de ropa



Ace (no accent on the 'e' because the stress is on the first syllable) is the brand name that is used generically. Pronounced Ah-seh.

That is exactly what I was told here in Luperon.

 

[Chirimoya]

also kote for all sanitary towels, conflé for all breakfast cereals.

 

[Africaida]

It s funny because Dominican pronunciations of name brand (such as pampers and confle )always throws me off when I first hear them. I can understand detergente because it s the same word in many language, but Ace I would look at you puzzled.

 

[CristoRey]

He knows now. I showed him. But fab is the kreyol word for detergent.

Cool. Learned something new today.
Having lived with Haitian neighbors
in the past, I never thought to ask.

 

[chico bill]

The dictionary used is correct.... 😉 SpanishDict has it right.

It is el detergente not la

 

[AlterEgo]

also kote for all sanitary towels, conflé for all breakfast cereals.

No all that unusual. A lot of Americans ask for a Kleenex instead of a tissue. Dominicans learned a word for a product and it stuck.

 

[chico bill]

And don't forget Gillet for any razor. Colgate for any toothpaste.

Pronounced Coll-Gatay

 

[chico bill]

Was texting an educated ( not university) person the other day and she was saying her friend fell and hit his head. And she texted "el se callo"
I corrected her that it should be 'cayo' but she swore she was right. Lots of phonetic spelling used in texts, makes me wonder what they were testing when teaching Spanish in colegios ?

 

[Marianopolita]

It is el detergente not la

I know and why are you pointing this out to me ??? The OP was incorrect.

Do you really think I don‘t know it is el detergente?

 

[NanSanPedro]

Was texting an educated ( not university) person the other day and she was saying her friend fell and hit his head. And she texted "el se callo"
I corrected her that it should be 'cayo' but she swore she was right. Lots of phonetic spelling used in texts, makes me wonder what they were testing when teaching Spanish in colegios ?

Obviously I'm no authority but for shits and grins I put what you wrote into google translate and into DeepL (my new toy). GT translated both and DL translate he fell into se cayó.