aah, the reason why the in-app kindle purchase flow in german has a button labeled "Bitte lesen" (which translates to "Please read") for opening the purchased ebook is that someone mistranslated "Read now" as if it was meant in imperative form?
My favorite out-of-context translation fail was some internal status page in Chrome years ago, which described sandboxing status as (translated back to English) "you have trained sufficiently".
@freddy @jann A bunch of years ago, I went on a giant quest to improve translation in Chrome (including getting colleagues to set Chrome to their native languages, which resulted in some 'great' bug reports). Lots of native speakers disagreeing with each other about what words mean. :(
One thing I discovered: Apparently, nobody on the team had ever set their locale to an RTL language. Text flying in every direction all over the place. I fixed as many of them as I could.
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