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Ask HN: How much influence do bad translations have?
Today a video showed up on my YouTube timeline with an automated translated title: 's werelds grootste getijdenboor (Dutch).
It is about a spring wave that is called 'vloedbranding' or 'bore' in Dutch.
I never heard of a 'getijdenboor' so I tried to look it up online.
There are a lot or websites with this word but they are all automatically translated. The word does not exist in Dutch.
So the translations of Google now introduced a non-existing word which spreads out across the internet.
I wonder how much influence this has.