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They had a gameboy ripoff that with an English description would say something like "Can withstand a childs abuse" but the Swedish translation was "kan motstå b
by carlhjerpe 5y ago
They had a gameboy ripoff that with an English description would say something like "Can withstand a childs abuse" but the Swedish translation was "kan motstå barns våldtäkter" which translates into "can withstand being raped by children". Amazon.se is a joke
- alangibson 5y agoSo they just ran their descriptions through an auto translator not even tuned for Swedish then published it without review. Classic.
- jug 5y agoYes. There was a lot of rape. Rapeseed is an example where rape has a different meaning but in Sweden the words are most definite distinct and it littered the site by making the wrong pick… Looked extremely amateur. There were other examples too of course, as is the norm with machine translations. I’m not even sure the initial launch looked as good as that Chinese site Wish…
- superjan 5y agoFor all you out there that build websites targeting Europe: please allow us to disable machine translation. In germanic language speaking countries nearly all are fluent in English. Maybe not all of the elderly but if you want to do businesses with them, machine translation will not be good enough.
- LargoLasskhyfv 5y agoWhile I concur with that, I sometimes wonder which machine translations they used? Googles got better, Deepl even more so. Maybe they should embed the latter as option for the languages it understands.