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by famouswaffles 1096 days ago
Bilingual LLMs make less Literal Translations where appropriate.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.16806

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And this makes sense, as some sayings would be unrecognizable word salad in other languages and cultures. Early Arctic birds don't catch many worms.

Gold in the mouth is something popularized by rappers (grills) back in the 90's, so that doesn't translate well at all for me.