> The product designers special-cased language names, doing extra work to produce what will almost always be the wrong result.
They absolutely did not do this. It's an artefact of statistical translation. In the corpus there are a lot of English documents saying "This document is in English", whose translated versions in Afrikaans (because I know Afrikaans) say "Hierdie dokument is in Afrikaans". Thus the translator learns the "hierdie" is Afrikaans for "this", "dokument" is "document, ..., and "English" is "Afrikaans".
The street name issue probably comes from an organisation whose Estonian office is in Peterburi tee and whose English office is in Hertford Road.
They absolutely did not do this. It's an artefact of statistical translation. In the corpus there are a lot of English documents saying "This document is in English", whose translated versions in Afrikaans (because I know Afrikaans) say "Hierdie dokument is in Afrikaans". Thus the translator learns the "hierdie" is Afrikaans for "this", "dokument" is "document, ..., and "English" is "Afrikaans".
The street name issue probably comes from an organisation whose Estonian office is in Peterburi tee and whose English office is in Hertford Road.