rain trutherschratze@todon.nl
May 11, 2025, 8:52 PMThis is more than two decades old, but it's still my favorite machine translation of all time. They mistranslated "car park" to "Karpfen-Arche" ("carp ark")
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- rain trutherschratze@todon.nlMay 11, 2025, 8:53 PM
I really hope Noah had enough space on his ark to save all those carps from the flood
May 11, 2025, 8:54 PM@schratze noah’s carp arc
- rain trutherschratze@todon.nlMay 11, 2025, 8:54 PM
@mossydrey Super Noah's Carp 3D
May 11, 2025, 8:54 PM@schratze du bist eine schmutzige Wäsche-Dienste
- rain trutherschratze@todon.nlMay 11, 2025, 8:54 PM
@Stoori I was wondering what those were. Sounds dirty
- May 11, 2025, 8:55 PM
@schratze huh, it's supposed to be laundry service of course?
- rain trutherschratze@todon.nlMay 11, 2025, 8:55 PM
@Stoori then why would they phrase it like that
- May 11, 2025, 8:55 PM
@schratze because it's a shitty machine translation :D
- May 11, 2025, 8:56 PM
@schratze i've translated poorly written texts for nearly 20 years, i've become quite good at deciphering these kinds of confusions
- rain trutherschratze@todon.nlMay 11, 2025, 8:57 PM
@Stoori have you ever been tempted to leave any of them in simply because they were too funny
- May 11, 2025, 8:58 PM
@schratze yes.
- May 11, 2025, 9:01 PM
@schratze anyway, your pic reminded me of this one which i did 21 years ago.
it was inspired by a real newspaper ad where something was ad-hoc repaired with duct tape, and the text ”or hire an engineer”.
so i took some shitty machine translation and made my own ”or hire a humanist” version.
- rain trutherschratze@todon.nlMay 11, 2025, 9:02 PM
@Stoori VOLLE STÜTZE
May 11, 2025, 8:58 PM@schratze Großen Karpfen-Arsche
- rain trutherschratze@todon.nlMay 11, 2025, 8:59 PM
@charlag 100000 carp arses stuck at Calais
- May 11, 2025, 9:11 PM
@schratze great minds think alike
toni✨🧠toni@zug.networkMay 11, 2025, 9:22 PM@schratze What is an American rod?
- rain trutherschratze@todon.nlMay 11, 2025, 9:25 PM
@toni American bar
Herzleidherzleid@wandering.shopMay 11, 2025, 9:26 PM@schratze Love how it went for "most polite version of the verb, probably" in all the ambiguous cases.
"Öffnen Sie von März bis Sep"
"Heben Sie"
"Zentrieren Sie Spiele für Kinder in Strand"I think my favourite is the space-as-in-the-whole-universe for tables and chairs 🤭
I have yet to figure out what an American pole(?) is that is open 24hrs? Is it a stripper pole, for making the laundry service a *dirty* laundry service? 🤔 So many questions.
- May 11, 2025, 9:28 PM
- Herzleidherzleid@wandering.shopMay 11, 2025, 9:31 PM
May 11, 2025, 9:35 PM@schratze ...and "lift" to "heben Sie" (imperative form of "to lift"), "space" to "Weltraum" ("space" as in spaceship)... 😂
- rain trutherschratze@todon.nlMay 11, 2025, 9:38 PM
@me_ honestly the only one who got away unscathed is the night porter
Mx Amber Alex (she/it)amberage@eldritch.cafeMay 12, 2025, 7:29 AM
