Google Translate is an online translation tool that is used very frequently. In Tunisia, the upper echelons of government, the Ministry for Culture and Heritage Preservation in this case, have used the tool.
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Google Translate turns Russia into Mordor
Google has fixed a bug in its online tool after Russia” is translated as “Mordor.””
Mordor is the name of an imaginary land, also called the Black Country” in J.R.R. Tolkien’s book, Lord of the Rings. That’s not all, since the term, “Russians” was translated by “occupiers,” and Sergey Lavrov, Russia’s Foreign Affairs Minister, was given the title of “sad little horse.”
When celebrities become victims of online translation
For many, Google Translate is an online translator that translates a word, a group of words, or a phrase. It should be noted that the platform operates on a crowdsourcing model. Based on the number of times Internet users give the same translation for a word, Google Translate determines that the translation is reliable.
An Israeli has designed an automatic translation program for telephone conversations
Itay Sagi is Israeli. He is the designer of Lexifone, an automatic translation program for telephone conversations. According to this computer genius, his program can support almost all the languages in the world. French, meanwhile, can be translated into 15 languages.