[rts_cts]

Next level Clbuttic [1] mistake

[1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/clbuttic

[jjoonathan]

My favorite is when google translate translates the Chinese word for product/item/thing as "baby." You shop for babies, babies go on sale, here, have a coupon for $2 off any baby! If it doesn't work out there's always the "return defective baby" button!

[jabbany]

I'm guessing this is for Taobao? They do stylize the term they use for products.

The more accurate translation would have be "precious/treasure" -- i.e., Shop for [Treasure]. (Taobao lit. means to [Pan] for [Treasure])

In common colloquial usage, though, the term would indeed refer to "baby" in the same sense as "my precious/darling".

[jjoonathan]

Yep! That's exactly it, thanks for the context.

[petepete]

This reminded me of the song "All that she wants" by Ace of Base. The mistranslation of the word "baby" makes the song sound like it's about a woman who wants more kids, rather than a woman who wants a lover.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrwlFTqS_bg

[bitwize]

Reminds me of the gourmet cuisine to be had at Translation Server Error.

[mablopoule]

Thank you for the term, I didn't knew about it.

Another very ironic example of that is this recent Reddit post [1], where the name "Nasser" was censored in-game to become "N***er", making it look much, much worse.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/znfw7y/my_name_is_n...