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Another one: the Chinese word for product/good, which is a bit more generic than its English counterpart and might be translated as "it/thing". One of the defin
by jjoonathan 6y ago
Another one: the Chinese word for product/good, which is a bit more generic than its English counterpart and might be translated as "it/thing". One of the definitions under that broad umbrella is "baby" (analogous to "little thing" I suppose) -- and for the longest time, despite year after year of Google publishing advanced neural translation models, google translate reliably chose "baby" as the translation in the context of online commerce.
I bought babies, got good deals on babies, and even tried to return a defective baby once, but it didn't work out.
It looks like this has now been fixed, but it was good fun for a long time.
- fireattack 6y agoI have no idea what word do you mean. 东西? 玩意?
- jjoonathan 6y ago子 IIRC.