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Title: Google translated Russia to 'Mordor' in 'automated' error
Post by: Mikal on January 07, 2016, 04:09:19 pm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-35251478

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Google has fixed a bug in an online tool after it began translating "Russian Federation" to "Mordor".
Mordor is the name of a fictional region nicknamed "Land of Shadow" in JRR Tolkien's Lord of the Rings books.
In addition, "Russians" was translated to "occupiers" and the surname of Sergey Lavrov, the country's Foreign Minister, to "sad little horse".
The errors had been introduced to Google Translate's Ukrainian to Russian service automatically, Google said.

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Yeah, an 'error'... :lol:

Title: Re: Google translated Russia to 'Mordor' in 'automated' error
Post by: TiMoN on January 07, 2016, 04:17:32 pm

lmfao

Title: Re: Google translated Russia to 'Mordor' in 'automated' error
Post by: Gandalf on January 07, 2016, 04:36:29 pm

In unrelated news, Google has terminated a contract with a Ukrainian software bureau telling it would switch resources to Asia.  :lol:

Title: Re: Google translated Russia to 'Mordor' in 'automated' error
Post by: Marcel on January 07, 2016, 05:14:31 pm

"Suggest a better translation"-Infected Zombie PC Edition!