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by memetichazard 5656 days ago
Google Translate is definitely far from perfect.

I once saw this forum post that was in German, that Google translated "A: Nyet." to "A: Yes."

Since it was a question and answer post regarding information for an upcoming game, there was quite of bit of fuss over it before this translation error was discovered.

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It surprised me so much I took a screenshoot of it:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5815494/GW-Deutch.jpg

I cannot understand what heuristic would translate the complete German sentence "Nein." into "Yes.".