When I read something about google translate (related to Latvian or not), there is a certain phrase I love testing - "Hard rock fan". There were times when it

When I read something about google translate (related to Latvian or not), there is a certain phrase I love testing - "Hard rock fan". There were times when it was translated literally - "a fan, manufactured from solid rock" (cieto iežu ventilators). Then for a brief moment it was translated as originally intended. Now, however, it translates to nonsense ("hard rock ventilators"), which losely may be translated back to English as "Hard rock fan", where "fan" refers to that thing which moves air around. However, an article from Latvian news site was translated to English unexpectedly good. Which was not the case for English to Latvian translation, sadly. But it makes some kind of point if we consider English as lingua franca.