Saturday, December 13, 2014

Lost in translation

A friend of mine has one of those Advent calendars where each day you open one small present. She posts them on Facebook, and I love “watching” each day. There have been slippers, gloves, little things that I’m not sure of. But all very entertaining.

She posts these discoveries in Danish. Well, she is Danish, so that seems fair enough. Mostly I can figure out what each thing is because it looks like slippers or gloves and whatnot. But the other day, I clicked on “translate” to see if my guess was right.

Here’s what Bing (Facebook's default translation application) gave me:


In fairness, Google Translate only did marginally better:



So, #webfail

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