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My favourite translation error lately was this one:

https://imgur.com/a/C8zV5Do

I'm already searching in German, so no need to translate; and it 'translated' by replacing 'Englisch' into 'Deutsch'.

Top marks amazon! :D



Oh man, Imgur has definitely fallen victim to asshole design. I was confused with the image you had linked for a while until I realized the image was hidden under a banner ad.

The one I was looking at was a completed unrelated “suggested image”.


That reminds me of the automatic translator in Telegram. If for example you translate from German to English and the message includes a German flag emoji, under certain conditions (that aren't very clear to me) it will turn into a British flag.


Afaik Telegram just uses Google Translate for that feature. Could you maybe try copying a message where that happens into Google Translate?




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