In Google Translate, “Russia” becomes “Mordor”
Lesson Brief
Эхо Москвы
An unchecked mishap in Google Translate yesterday caused for some interesting translations for words being translated from Ukrainian into Russian. "Russia" was translated as "Mordor", while "Lavrov" (Russia's foreign minister) was translated as "sad little horse". Google has since corrected the translations and provided an explanation for the prank.
In the news clip, go to 4:45 to hear about this story.
Click and Match
- to correct, amend
- исправлять, исправить
- dignity
- достоинство
- to select, write out
- набирать, набрать
- little horse, rocking horse
- лошадка
- letter (of the alphabet)
- буква
- prank
- шалость
- to notice, comment on
- отмечать, отметить
- search engine
- поисковик
- joker, prankster
- шутник
- translate from Russian to English
- переводить, перевести с русского на английский