Monsieur G · @Gend4r
209 followers · 524 posts · Server piaille.fr

Supplice germanique.
Pas trop mécontent du résultat.

#badtranslation #MastoArt

Last updated 2 years ago

Am Strand ist das wohl freier als woanders.

Gesehen in Schönhagen.

#badtranslation #wlan

Last updated 2 years ago

Nic Dafis · @nic
765 followers · 4927 posts · Server toot.wales

Bach yn anodd darllen, ond enghraifft dda o gyfieithiad sy’n dweud y gwrthwyneb i’r Saesneg wreiddiol. Bwrdd gwybodaeth bywyd gwyllt wrth Afon Rheidiol, Aberystwyth.

Again, this probably seems trivial, but surely bilingualism means I shouldn’t have to read the English to get accurate information.

#scymraeg #badtranslation

Last updated 2 years ago

G0OXO(he/him) · @G0OXO
33 followers · 92 posts · Server mastodon.radio
Martin Schäfer · @demeco_project
118 followers · 116 posts · Server digitalcourage.social

TIL: (thanks I guess): "Aufguss" is already a in , and it is actually a form of experimental theater:

"This is “Aufguss”, a German term for “infusion” that has been translated for American audiences as “wellness theater”. The art form, long popular in Europe, is getting its North American debut in an unexpected place: Sin City"

Ok, for reasons of fairness, I also tag this as

Source: theguardian.com/us-news/2023/j
.

#badtranslation #english #loanword #german #theguardian

Last updated 2 years ago

David Hull 胡大衛 · @HuShuo
552 followers · 2302 posts · Server mastodon.social

In the middle of a deep dive here, but ran across this and had to share. Beware of shoddy machine translations. Liaozhai is wild, but not wild like this:

#liaozhai #聊齋志異 #ghosts #strangetales #badtranslation #machinetranslation

Last updated 3 years ago

minus1digit · @minus1digit
20 followers · 132 posts · Server mstdn.party

When machine translation goes horribly wrong.

I'm buying some sausages from Shandong. Here's how the description is translated:

> Shandong specialty Laiwukou town sausage air-dried sausage sausage pork sausage manual enema 250g vacuum cooked food salty

Most of it is just comically inept, linguistically speaking.

Then you hit the fatal words: "manual enema".

I did not need to associate enemas with my food, thank you very much!





#chinesefood #chinese #WTAF #badtranslation #googletranslate

Last updated 3 years ago

Retro Rewind :rr: · @retrorewind
253 followers · 60 posts · Server retrorewind.social

Uhmmm, I will definitely be grabbing the jimp wire with my orther tool!

#badtranslation

Last updated 3 years ago

the three-day monk · @shinobiken
9 followers · 133 posts · Server mastodon.social

The English translation is baffling.

#badenglish #badtranslation

Last updated 3 years ago

Mudhooks 🇨🇦 · @Mudhooks
26 followers · 306 posts · Server mas.to

I was REALLY confused by the translation provided by Instagram… I was trying to figure out where the “squirrels” figured into this crime…

The correct translation was “squires”…

#medievalcrime #medievalhistory #badtranslation

Last updated 3 years ago

· @expat
44 followers · 312 posts · Server mamot.fr

me: What is “javascript disabled” in Dutch? : “javascript gehandicapt”

#argostranslate #badtranslation

Last updated 3 years ago

· @expat
44 followers · 312 posts · Server mamot.fr

me: What is “text browsers” in Dutch? : “SMS-browsers”

#argostranslate #badtranslation

Last updated 3 years ago

Kevin Vuilleumier 🇨🇭 · @kvuilleumier
341 followers · 5025 posts · Server framapiaf.org

Hum, c'est VRAIMENT nécessaire de tout traduire ? 😅

Il faudrait peut-être penser à exclure le nom du modèle, hein !

#uifail #oops #badtranslation #digitec

Last updated 5 years ago