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by andruby 1743 days ago
Aliexpress in Dutch is lovely!

Plenty of items on Aliexpress can be shipped from multiple locations. "China" is almost always one of the options. Well, in Dutch they've translated that to "Porselein". That is a valid translation, if you are talking about plates and dishes made from porcelain)

I wonder how actively harmful this bad translation is to their business.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_(material)

screenshot: https://fransdejonge.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Screensh...

2 comments

Weird, I sometimes get the French translation of AliExpress (when my cookie expires I suppose) and I haven't noticed "China" being translated as Porcelaine in French. I wonder why it's different. Also now I wonder why I get the French version, since I live in Flanders (although I'm a French speaker).

AliExpress translations are totally incomprehensible though anyway. I really don't think they should show the translated versions by default.

(By the way, your second link doesn't respond for me)

"Ships from" though is perfect Dutch.