"Robinson Crusoe" is the Spanish for "tales" (Google Translator WTF)

Today, I was talking with my former college mate, Pedro Laguna, about his new blogging project about Windows Vista and UAC. He asked me for commenting about such things like “What should I write in my About page?”, “How does this theme looks like?”, et cetera. I told him to write something like “Tales from UAC” in the blog subtitle. Aside from this, I gave him a piece of advice: double-check everything you write. We both are not native English speakers so we are very prone to write English with Spanish grammatical structures. I also reminded him to use WordReference, Google Translator and Google “define:word” because it is very easy for a non-native to misspell a word.

A few minutes later, he came back and told me he translated “tales” in Google Translator and found this WTF?:

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P.S: if you try “Tales”, it seems to work with correct results. But it is still amazing how we could arrive at this point. Did someone suggest this translation?

2 Responses to “"Robinson Crusoe" is the Spanish for "tales" (Google Translator WTF)”


  1. 2 Fallen August 22, 2008 at 22:41

    Recently I discovered the quality of this translater…

    From Spanish to English:

    origen de coordenadas, —> origin of coordinates,

    origen de coordenadas —> OpenGL

    !!!!! 0_o !!!!!

    Obviously the comma makes the difference!!, xDDD

    Try yourself…


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