Elton One

We all know that translating things to other languages using Google Translate or for that matter any form of translation is not always perfect, especially if you are translating from one language family to another as I was (English to Chinese - that’s a western sub-branch of the Germanic branch of the Indo-European family of languages translated to one of the two branches of the Sino-Tibetan family of languages).

I’ve had all kinds of amusing things come up, especially if you keep translating the same phrase between languages and the most recent I have found (don’t ask me why I was translating this) is:

“She would get it”

From English to Simplified Chinese you get:

她将拥有核弹

Which translated back to Engligh is:

“She will have a nuclear bomb”.

Excellent.

I found these images searching for Ubuntu using Google Images.

Ubuntu apparently caused a little controversy a few years ago with art work for the 4.10 (Warty) release that depicted naked people. I can’t see any problems. There’s no balls and you can change it.. Full story here.

Along an almost similar line (similar enough for google images anyway):