Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Google Translate FAIL haha ds106 asignment #5

Description: Find something in a foreign language and use Google Translate and laugh about how awful it is. Its pretty easy to do if you use Google Chrome. Just go to a site in another language and select the translate to English button when it pops up (options - under the hood - check the box that says to offer translations). I think you can also use the main google.com to translate pages as well. If its a language you know, give an explanation of what it should be and list possible reasons it got messed up.

This one I did of the iconic, Got Milk? It sounds so silly in Japanese...

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In Japanese is says: mi ru ku wo eta ka?

In my mind I was picturing the American posters of Got Milk? With a Japanese salary man standing instead and Got Milk? is subtitled--- ミルクを得たか?ROFL LOL....

4 comments:

  1. These translations are so funny... It really doesn't make any sense and its just sound stupid dane ;D Also iphone's auto correction is the same way too!!!

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  2. Its pretty crazy how some of these things translate sometimes. I wonder what it would say for some of the things we talk about in the lounge. LOL

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  3. In the case of my translation, the result was not word-for-word as I expected! In your case, it is somewhat close to the literal meaning.

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