How we check the translations

The card asks a stranger to understand it. The last screen asks them to answer. Those answers are the only words in this app that a parent acts on without being able to read them — so this page shows what we did to gain confidence in them, and where that confidence runs out.

Every one of those strings is translated back into English by two independent services that had no part in writing it, and translated forward again from the English. Where all four readings agree, the number is high. Where they disagree, a reviewer read the back translations and said whether the meaning actually survived.

What this does not tell you

A machine checking a machine is not a native speaker. Two services agreeing means the words survived a round trip, not that a waiter in Osaka would say them. No pack on this page has been signed off by a qualified medical translator — that is a separate job, it costs money, and what we spend tracks it.

A low score is not the same as a wrong translation. The number measures how closely the round trip matches the English wording. Japanese, Chinese, Korean and Thai score lower almost everywhere here because they legitimately restructure a sentence rather than because they are worse. That is exactly why a reviewer verdict sits beside the number instead of the number standing alone.

Open problems

None outstanding. Every string a reviewer marked as changing meaning has been rewritten and re-measured.

Every language

Agreement is the weighted match across the four readings. Sorted worst first.

JapaneseSame meaning, different words44%

prompt · 43% · Same meaning

Google back-translation: Google reads it as: “Please press the one that applies. The answer will be sent to the parents.”
MyMemory back-translation: MyMemory reads it as: “Please press the one that applies. Your answer will be passed on to your parent or guardian.”

当てはまるものを押してください = "press the one that applies"; お答えは保護者に伝わります = "your answer is conveyed to the guardian." Both halves land, including the point that the answer goes back to the parent. Reads as an instruction, not an agreement — nothing waiver-like. Japanese drops the possessive so 保護者 is technically bare "guardian" (MyMemory rendered it "your parent or guardian"), but on a screen sitting directly under a child's allergy card the referent is unambiguous to a reader. Register is plain polite, correct for a stranger.

willHelp · 32% · Same meaning, different words

Google back-translation: Google reads it as: “got it. Choose a safe menu.”
MyMemory back-translation: MyMemory reads it as: “Okay, we'll choose a safe menu.”

わかりました。安全なメニューをお選びします = "Understood. I will select safe dishes." お選びします is the humble form a waiter would actually use. Not conditional — わかりました is a completed acknowledgement, not "once I understand." The safety claim is scoped to picking safe dishes, no broader guarantee, so no over-promise. Only drift: お選びします is "I'll pick" rather than "I'll suggest," marginally more active than the English, but the commitment level is the same.

willCheck · 60% · Same meaning

Google back-translation: Google reads it as: “I'll check with the kitchen. please wait a moment.”
MyMemory back-translation: MyMemory reads it as: “Check in with the kitchen. Please wait.”

厨房に確認します。少々お待ちください = "I'll confirm with the kitchen. One moment please." Volitional present, no conditional, no hedge, no refusal — it reads as the speaker going now. 厨房 is standard trade vocabulary and 少々お待ちください is the stock service phrase. Exact register match.

notSure · 32% · Same meaning, different words

Google back-translation: Google reads it as: “I don't know for sure. This cannot be guaranteed.”
MyMemory back-translation: MyMemory reads it as: “I'm not sure. I can't guarantee it.”

はっきりとは分かりません。保証できません = "I don't know for certain. I can't guarantee it." Cannot be misread as agreement or reassurance — はっきりとは with the contrastive は explicitly scopes the negation to certainty, and 保証できません is an unambiguous warning off reliance. Two caveats worth knowing: 保証できません is bare and could in principle be heard as an institutional disclaimer rather than a personal one, though the preceding first-person 分かりません anchors it to the speaker; and the clipped two-sentence delivery is blunter than a waiter's natural 分かりかねます / お約束できかねます. Meaning is intact and the danger direction is correct.

notRecorded · 52% · Same meaning, different words

Google back-translation: Google reads it as: “Nothing about you will be recorded. Pushing the button doesn't mean you're signing anything.”
MyMemory back-translation: MyMemory reads it as: “—”

Rewritten by the reviewer after the original translated "waiver" as a legal term and inverted into a liability disclaimer. This is the reviewer's own replacement wording; it has not been independently re-reviewed.

ThaiSame meaning, different words46%

prompt · 52% · Same meaning

Google back-translation: Google reads it as: “Please press the answer that corresponds to the truth. Your answers will be shown to your parents.”
MyMemory back-translation: MyMemory reads it as: “Please press the correct one and your answer will be shown to the parents.”

กรุณากดข้อที่ตรงกับความจริง คำตอบของคุณจะแสดงให้ผู้ปกครองเห็น = "Please press the option that matches the truth. Your answer will be shown to the parent/guardian." Both required elements land: the instruction to pick the true option, and explicitly that the answer is shown to ผู้ปกครอง (parent/guardian — the correct word, covers a travelling parent). กรุณา is standard polite-imperative signage register, appropriate for a stranger being handed a phone. Nothing here reads as consent or a legal agreement. One nit, not a defect: ข้อ means "numbered item" and is strongly associated with multiple-choice exam papers, so it faintly frames the screen as a quiz; ปุ่ม ("button") would read more like an app.

willHelp · 48% · Same meaning, different words

Google back-translation: Google reads it as: “Once you understand, I will recommend a safe menu.”
MyMemory back-translation: MyMemory reads it as: “Got it. I'll recommend a safe menu.”

เข้าใจแล้ว จะแนะนำเมนูที่ปลอดภัยให้ = "Understood. I'll recommend safe dishes for you." Google's "Once you understand" is a back-translation error, not a defect in the string — เข้าใจแล้ว with the perfective แล้ว can only mean "I understand now / got it"; it cannot be read as a conditional "once you understand". MyMemory renders it correctly. Paraphrase rather than faithful only because เมนู is the everyday Thai word for a dish/menu item rather than a literal "dishes", and the trailing ให้ adds a natural "for you" that the English does not have. No over-promise: it commits to suggesting safe options, not to guaranteeing safety, which is exactly as much as this line should promise.

willCheck · 46% · Same meaning

Google back-translation: Google reads it as: “I'll go ask in the kitchen in a moment.”
MyMemory back-translation: MyMemory reads it as: “I will ask in the kitchen first for a moment.”

จะไปถามในครัวก่อน สักครู่นะ = "I'll go ask in the kitchen first. One moment." ไป makes the going-and-asking explicit, which is stronger and better than the English. ก่อน here is the sequential "first / before anything else", not a conditional — it cannot be read as "only if" or as a refusal. สักครู่นะ is the natural thing a Thai server actually says while stepping away; the particle นะ is softening and gender-neutral, so it carries the warmth that the missing ครับ/ค่ะ would otherwise have provided. Best line in the set.

notSure · 51% · Same meaning

Google back-translation: Google reads it as: “Not sure. Please don't trust my answer.”
MyMemory back-translation: MyMemory reads it as: “Not sure, please don't trust my answer.”

ไม่แน่ใจ กรุณาอย่าเชื่อถือคำตอบของฉัน = "Not sure. Please don't trust my answer." This is the string that must not fail, and it does not: อย่าเชื่อถือ is a direct negative imperative ("do not trust/rely on"), attached specifically to คำตอบ ("my answer"), so there is no reading in which this lands as agreement, reassurance, or "it's fine". Both back-translations converge. Register nit only, not a meaning problem: ฉัน is a first-person pronoun that in spoken Thai skews female and casual — a male server would say ผม, a formal female one ดิฉัน. Since the app cannot know the reader's gender, the idiomatic fix is to drop the pronoun entirely, which Thai does freely: ไม่แน่ใจ กรุณาอย่าเชื่อคำตอบนี้ ("Not sure — please don't rely on this answer"). Same meaning, no gender leak.

notRecorded · 31% · Same meaning, different words

Google back-translation: Google reads it as: “We don't store any of your information and you don't sign anything.”
MyMemory back-translation: MyMemory reads it as: “—”

KoreanSame meaning, different words47%

prompt · 35% · Same meaning, different words

Google back-translation: Google reads it as: “Please click the appropriate one. Answers are displayed to guardians.”
MyMemory back-translation: MyMemory reads it as: “Tap the applicable one. The answer will be visible to the guardian.”

"해당되는 것을 눌러 주세요. 답변은 보호자에게 표시됩니다." — 보호자 is the standard Korean term for a child's parent/guardian and is the right choice here (부모 would read oddly in a service context). Drops the possessive "your" before 답변, which is normal Korean ellipsis and still unmistakably the reader's answer. Passive 표시됩니다 makes clear the answer is shown back to the parent. No contractual or consent framing at all — nothing here reads as agreeing to anything.

willHelp · 35% · Same meaning, different words

Google back-translation: Google reads it as: “All right. I would recommend a safe menu.”
MyMemory back-translation: MyMemory reads it as: “Ok. I will recommend a safe menu.”

"알겠습니다. 안전한 메뉴를 추천하겠습니다." — 메뉴 is what Korean restaurant staff actually call individual dishes, so "안전한 메뉴를 추천" reads as "I'll recommend dishes that are safe," matching the source scope. Not conditional (알겠습니다 is a completed acknowledgement, not "once you understand"), and 추천하겠습니다 promises a suggestion, not a safety guarantee — no over-promise. Back-translations rendering it "a safe menu" is an artifact of the literal 메뉴 gloss, not a meaning problem.

willCheck · 65% · Same meaning

Google back-translation: Google reads it as: “I'll check with the kitchen. please wait for a moment.”
MyMemory back-translation: MyMemory reads it as: “I will check with the kitchen. Please wait.”

"주방에 확인해 보겠습니다. 잠시만 기다려 주세요." — unambiguous "I'll go check with the kitchen," volitional -겠습니다, no conditional and no refusal. 잠시만 기다려 주세요 is the exact phrase Korean waiters use for "one moment." 주방에 물어보겠습니다 would be a hair more natural than 확인해 보겠습니다, but both are standard floor speech.

notSure · 66% · Same meaning, different words

Google back-translation: Google reads it as: “I'm not sure. Please don't rely on my words.”
MyMemory back-translation: MyMemory reads it as: “I'm not sure. Please don't rely on me.”

"확실하지 않습니다. 제 말에 의존하지 말아 주세요." — reads clearly as the speaker admitting uncertainty plus an explicit instruction not to rely on them; there is no way to read this as agreement or reassurance. 의존하다 is slightly bookish for spoken service register (제 말만 믿지 마세요 is what a waiter would more likely say), but the warning lands and is if anything stronger for being formal. The meaning is intact as it stands.

notRecorded · 36% · Same meaning, different words

Google back-translation: Google reads it as: “Your personal information will not be saved when you click. You are not signing.”
MyMemory back-translation: MyMemory reads it as: “—”

Chinese (Simplified)Same meaning, different words47%

prompt · 28% · Same meaning

Google back-translation: Google reads it as: “Please click on the one that applies. Your answers will be displayed to parents.”
MyMemory back-translation: MyMemory reads it as: “Press one that matches. Your answers will be shown to parents.”

请按下符合情况的一项 = 'press the one that fits the situation'; 您的回答会显示给家长 = 'your answer will be shown to the parent/guardian'. Both halves land: it is clearly a choice, and it is explicit that the answer goes to the parent. No contractual or agreement flavour. 家长 is the natural word for the child's parent/guardian. Polite 您 throughout.

willHelp · 52% · Same meaning

Google back-translation: Google reads it as: “I see. I would recommend safe dishes.”
MyMemory back-translation: MyMemory reads it as: “I see. I would recommend a safe dish.”

我明白了 = 'I understand' (completed, not conditional — no 'once you understand' reading). 我会推荐安全的菜品 = 'I will recommend safe dishes', 会 marks willingness/future, not a hypothetical, despite both back-translations rendering it as English 'would'. Scope stays at suggesting dishes; no guarantee of safety is promised.

willCheck · 45% · Same meaning, different words

Google back-translation: Google reads it as: “I'll ask the kitchen, please wait.”
MyMemory back-translation: MyMemory reads it as: “I'll ask the kitchen, please wait.”

我去问一下厨房 = 'I'll go ask the kitchen'; 去 makes the going-now action explicit, 一下 is the ordinary softener a waiter uses. 请稍等 = 'please wait a moment', the standard service phrase for 'one moment'. Unconditional and not a refusal; slightly warmer than the English but identical in meaning.

notSure · 86% · Same meaning

Google back-translation: Google reads it as: “I'm not sure, please don't rely on my judgment.”
MyMemory back-translation: MyMemory reads it as: “I'm not sure, please don't rely on my judgment.”

我不确定 = 'I'm not sure'; 请不要依赖我的判断 = 'please do not rely on my judgment'. The added 我的判断 sharpens rather than softens the warning — it explicitly tells the parent not to treat this person's assessment as reliable. No possible reading as agreement or reassurance.

notRecorded · 24% · Same meaning, different words

Google back-translation: Google reads it as: “Your answer will not be recorded and this is not a signature or commitment.”
MyMemory back-translation: MyMemory reads it as: “—”

Checked against the corrected English; the reviewer made no change.

VietnameseSame meaning, different words56%

prompt · 49% · Same meaning, different words

Google back-translation: Google reads it as: “Please click on the correct sentence. Your responses will be displayed to parents.”
MyMemory back-translation: MyMemory reads it as: “Please tap the correct statement. Your answers will be shown to parents.”

willHelp · 62% · Same meaning, different words

Google back-translation: Google reads it as: “I got it. I will suggest safe dishes.”
MyMemory back-translation: MyMemory reads it as: “Got it. I'll suggest something safe.”

willCheck · 56% · Same meaning, different words

Google back-translation: Google reads it as: “I'll ask the kitchen. Please wait a moment.”
MyMemory back-translation: MyMemory reads it as: “I'll ask the kitchen. One moment, please.”

notSure · 74% · Same meaning, different words

Google back-translation: Google reads it as: “I'm not sure. Please don't believe my words.”
MyMemory back-translation: MyMemory reads it as: “I'm not sure. Please don't take my word for it.”

notRecorded · 37% · Same meaning, different words

Google back-translation: Google reads it as: “We do not save any information about you. You didn't sign any papers.”
MyMemory back-translation: MyMemory reads it as: “—”

ArabicSame meaning, different words59%

prompt · 45% · Same meaning, different words

Google back-translation: Google reads it as: “Please click on what applies. Your answer will appear to the guardian.”
MyMemory back-translation: MyMemory reads it as: “Please click on the one that applies. Your answer will be shown to the parent.”

"يرجى الضغط على ما ينطبق. ستظهر إجابتك لولي الأمر." = "Please press what applies. Your answer will be shown to the guardian." Both required elements are present: it is an instruction to press, and it states explicitly that the answer goes back to the parent. Nothing reads as a legal agreement. Two register notes: "ما ينطبق" (what applies) is a slightly flatter rendering of "whichever is true" — fine, but "ما هو صحيح" would be closer; and "ولي الأمر" is the formal/legal term for a legal guardian, which is bureaucratic next to plain English "the parent". "لولي الطفل" or simply "للوالد" would sound more like a person and less like a form. Neither affects comprehension for a waiter. The low agreement score (45) reflects lexical distance from the English, not a defect.

willHelp · 62% · Same meaning

Google back-translation: Google reads it as: “Understood. I will suggest safe dishes.”
MyMemory back-translation: MyMemory reads it as: “I see. I will suggest safe dishes.”

"فهمت. سأقترح أطباقاً آمنة." = "I understand. I will suggest safe dishes." Exactly the scoped promise — suggesting safe dishes, with no over-promise of guaranteed safety and no conditional framing ("once you understand…"). "فهمت" is the correct plain first-person past and is gender-neutral in this form. Register is right: short, declarative, what a waiter would actually say. Only micro-nit: "أطباقاً" uses the older tanween-on-alif spelling; "أطباقًا" is the more current convention. Purely orthographic.

willCheck · 76% · Same meaning, different words

Google back-translation: Google reads it as: “I'll check the kitchen. One moment please.”
MyMemory back-translation: MyMemory reads it as: “I'll check the kitchen. One moment, please.”

"سأتحقق من المطبخ. لحظة من فضلك." = "I'll check with the kitchen. One moment please." Future tense with سـ, unconditional, and "لحظة من فضلك" makes it read as an action starting now — no refusal, no "if" clause. The one imprecision: "أتحقق من المطبخ" literally verifies *the kitchen* rather than *asks the kitchen staff*, and both back-translations picked that up as "I'll check the kitchen." A waiter would more naturally say "سأسأل المطبخ" or "سأستفسر من المطبخ". The parent still gets the right signal — someone is going to find out — so this is a naturalness note, not a defect.

notSure · 63% · Same meaning

Google back-translation: Google reads it as: “I'm not sure. Please don't take my word for it.”
MyMemory back-translation: MyMemory reads it as: “I'm not sure. Please don't take my word for it.”

"لست متأكداً. أرجو ألا تعتمد على كلامي." = "I'm not sure. Please don't rely on what I say." This is the string that matters most and it lands correctly: "لست متأكداً" is an unambiguous admission of uncertainty, and "أرجو ألا تعتمد على كلامي" is an explicit warning not to rely on the speaker. There is no reading under which this could be taken as agreement, reassurance, or "it's fine" — the negated reliance clause forecloses it. One register point: "متأكداً" is masculine, so a female waiter or cook is made to speak in the masculine. Arabic UI commonly defaults this way, but "لست متأكداً/متأكدة" or a form-neutral rewrite like "ليست لدي معلومة أكيدة. أرجو ألا تعتمد على كلامي." would avoid it. Not a meaning change.

notRecorded · 49% · Same meaning, different words

Google back-translation: Google reads it as: “We don't keep anything from you, and you don't sign anything.”
MyMemory back-translation: MyMemory reads it as: “—”

FrenchSame meaning, different words62%

prompt · 59% · Same meaning, different words

Google back-translation: Google reads it as: “Please tap the corresponding answer. Your answer will be shown to the parent.”
MyMemory back-translation: MyMemory reads it as: “Please press the corresponding answer. Your response will be shown to the parent.”

"la réponse qui correspond" (the answer that applies) covers "whichever is true" naturally; both back-translations recover it. "Votre réponse sera montrée au parent" states the answer goes back to the parent more explicitly than the English does. Vouvoiement throughout, no agreement or consent framing — reads as an instruction, not a form.

willHelp · 40% · Same meaning, different words

Google back-translation: Google reads it as: “Got it. I will offer safe dishes.”
MyMemory back-translation: MyMemory reads it as: “Got it. I'll offer safe food.”

"J'ai compris. Je proposerai des plats sans danger." is a plain assertion in the future simple — no conditional, no "once you understand". "sans danger" carries the same scope as "safe": it modifies the dishes suggested, not a guarantee about the meal. "compris" takes no gender agreement here, so the string is speaker-neutral. Machine score of 40 is lexical divergence, not a meaning problem.

willCheck · 75% · Same meaning

Google back-translation: Google reads it as: “I'll check in the kitchen. A moment.”
MyMemory back-translation: MyMemory reads it as: “I'll check in the kitchen. Just a moment.”

"Je vais vérifier en cuisine. Un instant." — near-future "je vais" reads as going now, not as a conditional or a hedge. "en cuisine" is the standard trade phrasing for going through to the kitchen; "dans la cuisine" would sound literal and foreign. Nothing to change.

notSure · 69% · Same meaning, different words

Google back-translation: Google reads it as: “I'm not sure. Don't trust me.”
MyMemory back-translation: MyMemory reads it as: “I'm not sure. Don't trust me.”

Meaning is right and the warning is unambiguous: "Ne vous fiez pas à moi" is a direct instruction not to rely on the speaker, with no route to reading it as agreement or reassurance. One flaw: "sûr" is masculine agreement, so a female reader is made to say a grammatically wrong sentence. The meaning is correct as it stands. For a gender-neutral version without "(e)" clutter, "Je ne sais pas avec certitude. Ne vous fiez pas à moi." carries the same force and inflects for nobody.

notRecorded · 69% · Same meaning, different words

Google back-translation: Google reads it as: “We do not record anything about you. You don't sign anything.”
MyMemory back-translation: MyMemory reads it as: “—”

ItalianSame meaning, different words63%

prompt · 53% · Same meaning, different words

Google back-translation: Google reads it as: “Press the corresponding answer. Your response will be shown to the parent.”
MyMemory back-translation: MyMemory reads it as: “Press the corresponding answer. Your answer will be shown to the parent.”

"Prema la risposta che corrisponde" = "press the answer that applies" rather than the English "whichever is true" — same instruction, slightly barer because "corrisponde" has no stated object, but any reader supplies "to your situation". Second sentence is exact: the answer is explicitly shown to the parent, which is the load-bearing part. Reads as a UI instruction, not a legal agreement. "Prema" is the correct formal imperative for a button.

willHelp · 55% · Same meaning

Google back-translation: Google reads it as: “I understand. I will offer you safe dishes.”
MyMemory back-translation: MyMemory reads it as: “I get it. I'll offer you safe dishes.”

"Ho capito. Le proporrò piatti sicuri." — "I understand. I'll suggest safe dishes to you." Indicative future, not conditional, so no "once you understand..." reading. Scope is held to suggesting dishes; it does not over-promise safety or guarantee anything about the kitchen. Formal "Le" matches the rest of the set.

willCheck · 64% · Same meaning, different words

Google back-translation: Google reads it as: “I ask in the kitchen. One moment.”
MyMemory back-translation: MyMemory reads it as: “I ask in the kitchen. One moment.”

"Chiedo in cucina" uses the Italian present-for-immediate-future, which is what a waiter actually says and reads as "I'm going to ask now" — if anything more immediate than the English future. Not conditional, not a refusal. The back-translations render it as flat present tense ("I ask in the kitchen"), which is an artefact of MT, not a defect in the copy.

notSure · 92% · Same meaning

Google back-translation: Google reads it as: “I'm not sure. Please don't rely on me.”
MyMemory back-translation: MyMemory reads it as: “I'm not sure. Please don't rely on me.”

Both halves land: "Non ne sono sicuro" is a plain admission of uncertainty with no hedge that could be mistaken for assent, and "La prego di non fare affidamento su di me" is an explicit instruction to the parent not to rely on the speaker. No reassurance reading. Register is polite formal. Caveat, not a meaning defect: "sicuro" is masculine, so a female reader is made to speak in the wrong gender — recommend "Non ho la certezza." or "Non saprei." as a gender-neutral swap.

notRecorded · 52% · Same meaning, different words

Google back-translation: Google reads it as: “We save nothing on her. He's not signing anything.”
MyMemory back-translation: MyMemory reads it as: “—”

SpanishSame meaning, different words66%

prompt · 45% · Same meaning, different words

Google back-translation: Google reads it as: “Please click the appropriate option. Your answer will be shown to the mother or father.”
MyMemory back-translation: MyMemory reads it as: “Please tap the appropriate option. Your response will be shown to the mother or father.”

"pulse la opción que corresponda" (press the option that applies) drops the literal "whichever is true" but carries the same instruction. "Su respuesta se mostrará a la madre o al padre" makes it explicit that the answer is shown back to the parent, which is the load-bearing part. No legal-agreement framing. Register is correct usted, what a sign or a polite waiter-facing prompt would use. Minor: "a la madre o al padre" is clunky and assumes a parent — Spanish has no neutral singular here, but "a quien le acompaña" or "a la familia" would be shorter and cover a grandparent or carer.

willHelp · 82% · Same meaning

Google back-translation: Google reads it as: “Understood. I will suggest dishes that are safe.”
MyMemory back-translation: MyMemory reads it as: “Got it. I'll suggest dishes that are safe.”

"Entendido. Le sugeriré platos que sean seguros." — declarative future, no conditional, no "once you understand". Promises only suggestion of safe dishes, does not over-promise safety or guarantee. Subjunctive "que sean seguros" is fine though "platos seguros" would be tighter; purely stylistic.

willCheck · 71% · Same meaning

Google back-translation: Google reads it as: “I'm going to check with the kitchen. One moment.”
MyMemory back-translation: MyMemory reads it as: “I'm going to check with the kitchen. Just a moment.”

"Voy a consultarlo con la cocina. Un momento." — ir a + infinitive reads as immediate intent, i.e. going to ask the kitchen now. Not conditional, not a refusal. "Un momento" is exactly what a waiter says. Clean.

notSure · 81% · Same meaning, different words

Google back-translation: Google reads it as: “I'm not sure. Please don't trust me on this.”
MyMemory back-translation: MyMemory reads it as: “I'm not sure. Please don't trust me for this.”

Meaning is intact and the dangerous failure mode is avoided: "No estoy seguro" is an unambiguous admission of uncertainty, and "no confíe en mí para esto" is an explicit instruction not to rely on the speaker — arguably stronger and clearer than the English dash construction. No way to read it as agreement or reassurance. One register defect: "seguro" is masculine-marked, so it is wrong for a female server. A gender-neutral rewrite avoids the problem entirely, e.g. "No lo sé con certeza. Por favor, no confíe en mí para esto." — same length, no agreement marker.

notRecorded · 49% · Same meaning, different words

Google back-translation: Google reads it as: “We don't keep anything about you. You don't sign anything.”
MyMemory back-translation: MyMemory reads it as: “—”

GreekSame meaning, different words67%

prompt · 49% · Same meaning, different words

Google back-translation: Google reads it as: “Press the one that applies. Your answer will appear in the parent.”
MyMemory back-translation: MyMemory reads it as: “Tap the one that applies. Your answer will be shown to the parent.”

"Πατήστε αυτό που ισχύει" = "press the one that applies/is true" — correct, and the formal plural imperative carries the politeness that the dropped "Please" would have added, so no register loss. "Η απάντησή σας θα εμφανιστεί στον γονέα" is idiomatic and makes the answer's destination explicit; Google's "appear in the parent" is a back-translation artefact of εμφανίζομαι σε, not an error in the Greek. Reads as a UI instruction, with no hint of consent or agreement.

willHelp · 75% · Same meaning

Google back-translation: Google reads it as: “I understood. I will recommend dishes that are safe.”
MyMemory back-translation: MyMemory reads it as: “I get it. I'll recommend dishes that are safe.”

"Κατάλαβα" is the exact thing a Greek waiter says on being shown an allergy card — acknowledgement, not agreement to a term. "Θα προτείνω πιάτα που είναι ασφαλή" promises suggestion only and does not over-promise safety, and the future θα προτείνω is a plain commitment with no conditional reading. Minor style-only point: "ασφαλή πιάτα" would be tighter than the relative clause, but the meaning is identical.

willCheck · 67% · Same meaning

Google back-translation: Google reads it as: “I'll ask in the kitchen. One moment.”
MyMemory back-translation: MyMemory reads it as: “I'll ask in the kitchen. Just a moment.”

"Θα ρωτήσω στην κουζίνα" is the natural Greek for going to ask the kitchen — active, immediate, not conditional and not a refusal. "Μια στιγμή" is the standard hold-on phrase and preserves the sense that the reader is leaving to check right now.

notSure · 83% · Same meaning, different words

Google back-translation: Google reads it as: “I'm not sure. Don't rely on me.”
MyMemory back-translation: MyMemory reads it as: “I'm not sure. Don't rely on me.”

Meaning is safe and intact: "Δεν είμαι σίγουρος" is a plain admission of uncertainty, and "Μη βασιστείτε σε εμένα" is a direct formal-plural warning not to rely on the speaker — there is no path to reading this as agreement or reassurance. The defect is gender, not meaning: σίγουρος is masculine, so a female waiter is made to speak in the wrong form. Greek has no neutral adjective here; the usual fixes are the slashed "Δεν είμαι σίγουρος/η" (standard in Greek UI, slightly clumsy aloud) or the genuinely gender-free "Δεν ξέρω με σιγουριά" / "Δεν το γνωρίζω σίγουρα", which I would prefer since this string is read aloud as much as tapped.

notRecorded · 62% · Same meaning, different words

Google back-translation: Google reads it as: “We don't store anything for you. You are not signing anything.”
MyMemory back-translation: MyMemory reads it as: “—”

GermanSame meaning, different words68%

prompt · 49% · Same meaning, different words

Google back-translation: Google reads it as: “Please tap what applies. Your answer will be shown to the parents.”
MyMemory back-translation: MyMemory reads it as: “Please tap on what applies. Their answer will be shown to the parents.”

"Bitte tippen Sie auf das, was zutrifft. Ihre Antwort wird den Eltern gezeigt." Two deliberate shifts, both defensible. "Tippen" (tap) rather than press matches how Germans talk about phone screens. "Den Eltern" is plural where the English is singular, but German has no graceful singular gender-neutral word for parent — "dem Elternteil" is bureaucratic and "der Mutter oder dem Vater" is long — so the generic plural is the idiomatic call. The passive "wird gezeigt" makes it unambiguous the answer is displayed back to the parent, which is the load-bearing half. Nothing here reads as consent, agreement, or a legal act; it is plainly an instruction to tap. MyMemory's "Their answer" is a back-translation artefact of the capitalised formal "Ihre" and is not a real defect.

willHelp · 63% · Same meaning, different words

Google back-translation: Google reads it as: “Understood. I recommend dishes that are safe.”
MyMemory back-translation: MyMemory reads it as: “Got it. I recommend dishes that are safe.”

"Verstanden. Ich empfehle Gerichte, die sicher sind." Present tense standing in for the future is normal German for an immediate commitment, so this reads as "I'll recommend", not a general statement of policy. No conditional framing anywhere — nothing like "once you understand" or "if", which is the failure mode that hit Thai. Scope is right: it promises a recommendation of safe dishes, not a guarantee of safety. "Empfehlen" (recommend) is a shade more authoritative than "suggest", but well inside the range a waiter would actually use and not an over-promise. Style nit only: "Gerichte, die sicher sind" is a literal rendering of the English relative clause; "Ich empfehle Ihnen sichere Gerichte" would sound less translated.

willCheck · 71% · Same meaning

Google back-translation: Google reads it as: “I'll ask in the kitchen. One moment.”
MyMemory back-translation: MyMemory reads it as: “I check in the kitchen. Just a moment.”

"Ich frage in der Küche nach. Einen Moment." The separable verb "nachfragen" specifically means to go and enquire, which is exactly the intended "I will go and ask the kitchen now" — stronger and more concrete than a bare "fragen" would be. Declarative present, so it commits to the action; no modal, no conditional, no hedge, and nothing that could be read as a refusal. "Einen Moment" is precisely what German service staff say. Best string of the five.

notSure · 97% · Same meaning

Google back-translation: Google reads it as: “I'm not sure. Please don't rely on me.”
MyMemory back-translation: MyMemory reads it as: “I'm not sure. Please don't rely on me.”

"Ich bin nicht sicher. Bitte verlassen Sie sich nicht auf mich." This is the safety-critical string and it holds up. "Sich verlassen auf" is unambiguously "to rely on" — it cannot be misread as trust in the social sense, and the explicit "nicht" plus "Bitte" makes it a direct warning to the parent rather than a soft hedge. There is no available reading as agreement or reassurance; a parent seeing this rendered back in English gets a clear no-one-vouched-for-this signal. Gender-neutral, so it works regardless of who is holding the phone. Sole nit: idiomatic German usually adds the reflexive dative — "Ich bin mir nicht sicher" — but the bare form is common in speech and changes nothing semantically.

notRecorded · 59% · Same meaning, different words

Google back-translation: Google reads it as: “We don't store anything about you. You don't sign anything here.”
MyMemory back-translation: MyMemory reads it as: “—”

TurkishSame meaning, different words69%

prompt · 54% · Same meaning

Google back-translation: Google reads it as: “Please tap the correct one. Your answer will be shown to the parent.”
MyMemory back-translation: MyMemory reads it as: “Please tap the correct one. Your answer will be shown to the parent.”

"Lütfen doğru olana dokunun. Cevabınız ebeveyne gösterilecek." — both back-translations agree and match intent. It states plainly that the answer goes to the parent, and reads as an instruction, not an agreement or consent form. Two register nits: "doğru olana" can be read as "the correct one" (as if there is a right answer) rather than "whichever is true for you" — "size uyana" would be tighter; and "ebeveyn" is officialese (school-form vocabulary). "Aileye" is what a Turk would actually say, and it also covers a grandparent or carer holding the phone. A more natural version: "Lütfen size uyana dokunun. Cevabınız aileye gösterilecek."

willHelp · 59% · Same meaning

Google back-translation: Google reads it as: “I understand I will recommend safe meals.”
MyMemory back-translation: MyMemory reads it as: “Got it. I'll recommend safe food.”

"Anladım. Güvenli yemekler önereceğim." = "I understand. I'll suggest safe dishes." Correct scope — a promise to suggest, not a guarantee of safety, and not conditional (no "anlayınca" / "anladığımda" construction). Simple future -eceğim is the right commitment tense. The English em-dash is dropped in favour of a full stop, which is normal Turkish punctuation and not a meaning change.

willCheck · 56% · Same meaning

Google back-translation: Google reads it as: “I'll ask the kitchen. One minute.”
MyMemory back-translation: MyMemory reads it as: “I'll ask the kitchen. Wait a minute.”

"Mutfağa soracağım. Bir dakika." = "I'll ask the kitchen. One minute." Unambiguously an action the speaker is about to take now — no conditional (-sa/-se), no hedge, no refusal. "Bir dakika" is the idiomatic Turkish equivalent of "one moment"; it reads as the natural thing a waiter says while stepping away, not as a literal duration. Nothing to fix.

notSure · 86% · Same meaning, different words

Google back-translation: Google reads it as: “I am not sure. Please don't trust me.”
MyMemory back-translation: MyMemory reads it as: “I'm not sure. Please don't trust me.”

"Emin değilim. Lütfen bana güvenmeyin." carries the required force: it is an explicit admission of uncertainty plus a negative imperative telling the parent not to rely on the speaker. There is no reading of it as agreement or reassurance, so it is not dangerous — if anything it is stronger than the English. The nit is register: bare "bana güvenmeyin" targets the person rather than the answer ("don't trust me" as a character statement), which lands oddly for a waiter. "Lütfen benim sözüme güvenmeyin" (don't rely on my word) is the more natural, and slightly softer, way to say the same thing. The meaning is intact as it stands.

notRecorded · 90% · Same meaning

Google back-translation: Google reads it as: “Nothing is recorded about you. You are not signing anything.”
MyMemory back-translation: MyMemory reads it as: “—”

Checked against the corrected English; the reviewer made no change.

PortugueseSame meaning, different words74%

prompt · 51% · Same meaning, different words

Google back-translation: Google reads it as: “Please tap the corresponding option. Your answer will be shown to the parent.”
MyMemory back-translation: MyMemory reads it as: “Please tap on the option that matches. Your answer will be shown to the parent.”

willHelp · 84% · Same meaning, different words

Google back-translation: Google reads it as: “I understood. I will suggest dishes that are safe.”
MyMemory back-translation: MyMemory reads it as: “Got it. I'll suggest dishes that are safe.”

willCheck · 85% · Same meaning, different words

Google back-translation: Google reads it as: “I'll confirm with the kitchen. One moment.”
MyMemory back-translation: MyMemory reads it as: “I'll check with the kitchen. One moment.”

notSure · 87% · Same meaning, different words

Google back-translation: Google reads it as: “I'm not sure. Please don't trust me.”
MyMemory back-translation: MyMemory reads it as: “I'm not sure. Please don't trust me.”

notRecorded · 65% · Same meaning, different words

Google back-translation: Google reads it as: “We keep nothing about you. You're not signing anything.”
MyMemory back-translation: MyMemory reads it as: “—”

The working

Checked on 2 August 2026. Each string gets four readings:

35% — Google translating our string back into English
25% — MyMemory translating our string back into English
25% — Google translating the English into that language
15% — MyMemory translating the English into that language

Back translation is weighted heaviest because it tests whether the meaning survives the round trip. Forward agreement only tests whether an engine would have chosen the same words, which good writing often does not. Similarity is character-bigram Dice, with word overlap added when both sides are English.

The reviewer was asked to ignore wording and judge meaning, and to look specifically for the failures that hurt: an “I'm not sure” that could be read as agreement, and a “nothing is recorded” that reads as us avoiding blame rather than telling a waiter they are not signing anything.

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