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One time about 10-13 years ago, I was tasked to make an announcement in church about my group. It took the form of a testimonial; it was about a page long in En
by NoZebra120vClip 3y ago
One time about 10-13 years ago, I was tasked to make an announcement in church about my group. It took the form of a testimonial; it was about a page long in English. I also needed to present the same testimonial at Spanish services, and so I began with Google Translate.
I had written a sentence like: "There is electricity in the air at our events." The Spanish translation came out as: "No hay electricidad en el aire..." and I was horrified. Thankfully, I was proofreading the whole document closely, and I was able to correct the glaring error before showtime, and there were no further glaring errors of this type.
But I was fairly flabbergasted that Translate would just gratuitously toss in such a negation when it was clearly wrong, and nothing about my sentence construction was complicated.