It’s been proven to be round
for years, yet many people still believe that Earth is flat. These so-called
‘Flat Earthers’ have come up with a range of weird and wonderful theories, in
the hopes of proving that our planet isn’t spherical. Now, a hilarious error
has seen Google Translate accidentally troll these believers.
A user on Reddit discovered
that if you ask Google Translate to translate the sentence ‘I am a Flat
Earther' from English to French, the system will respond with ‘Je suis un fou.'
They said: “Translate works
by learning patterns from many millions of examples of translations seen out on
the web. “Unfortunately, some of those patterns can lead to incorrect
translations. The error has been reported and we are working on a fix.”
We have checked, and it
appears the error is still in place, and the translation is still there. And it
isn’t just the French translation that has issues.
According to reddit user
BluudLust, the Arabic translation means ‘I’m a flat ear,’ while the Romanian
translation means ‘I’m a flat spider.’ Try it yourself.
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