Incredible Lebanon Google Catch!
Posted By Mustapha On October 15, 2007 @ 3:26 pm In Miscalleneous | No Comments
Apparently, even Google is now taking part of the Syrian conspiracy against Lebanon :)
I came upon the most amazing of discoveries today.
Did you know that Google’s German-to-English [1] online translator translates the word “Libanesischer” into “Lebanese”, but translates the sentence “Libanesischer Präsident” into “Syrian President”? [1] Try it yourself.
Since I’m no German expert, I tried translating “Libanesischer Präsident” in other translators but I got a normal “Lebanese President” answer. So the problem is only in Google.
If you must know how I discovered this, I was browsing [2] an article in German about Lebanon which has a link to my blog. So [3] I translated the article into English (click on “read more”) using Google, and I found a link for “Syrian President” right above mine (find the links at the end of the story). I thought “how could this be?” something must be wrong, and the rest is history..
Article printed from The Beirut Spring, a Lebanese Blog: http://beirutspring.com/blog
URL to article: http://beirutspring.com/blog/2007/10/15/incredible-lebanon-google-catch/
URLs in this post:
[1] online translator: http://translate.google.com/translate_t?langpair=de%7Cen
[2] an article: http://www.orf.at/071012-17582/?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.orf.at%2F071012-17582%2F17583txt_story.html
[3] I translated the article: http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.orf.at%2F071012-17582%2F%3Fhref%3Dhttp%253A
%252F%252Fwww.orf.at%252F071012-17582%252F17583txt_story.html&langpair=de%7Cen&hl=en&ie=
UTF8
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