[xorcist]

Serious question: Why would you do such a thing?

I'm asking because I have this feeling it has become more and more common during the last years. Just because I sent a header that I can read a certain language, a lot of websites send me completely unreadable autotranslations.

There is nothing hilarous about it. If it's not a proper translation, if it's not something a native speaker would understand, then why send it at all?

Why butcher a beautiful language, put the pieces back together with random dung and then throw the resulting muck in the face of your users?

Are you that afraid that someone from France, Finland or the Faroe Islands would stumble upon your site, in the vast sea of the English speaking Internet, and then never come back just because it's not translated to their mother tongue?

Truly sorry for the rant. It was something built up. I do wonder about the prevalence of autotranslations however.

[steveridout]

Completely agree, especially since Chrome now offers to translate web-pages in other languages when the user opens them. It's far better to leave the decision to use machine-translation to the end user.