Google Translate is a wonderfully useful tool. And yet we all know it has its limits.
Well, maybe not all of us: The Register reports that a new website promoting the charms of South Moravia ended up in something of a pickle last week when it entrusted Google Translate with the English language text.
The result: some rather amusing chaos. Wine cellars became “guilty basements”, one poor village was portrayed as “Unplanned Pregnancy” and we were invited to hear all about the history of “Christopher the Bastard from Afterspoons and Without-satellites“. O-K.
Sadly, the website text has been fixed now and it looks lovely. So lovely, in fact, that we can’t help wondering if the whole thing could – just maybe – have been a dastardly clever scheme to get us to visit.