{"id":160389,"date":"2025-03-27T20:50:25","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T20:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/apple-2\/google-translate-forks-up-tidbits\/"},"modified":"2025-03-27T20:50:25","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T20:50:25","slug":"google-translate-forks-up-tidbits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=160389","title":{"rendered":"Google Translate Forks Up &#8211; TidBITS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-69973\">\n<div class=\"c-post__content\">\n<p>At the Pew Research Center\u2019s Decoded blog, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/decoded\/2025\/03\/21\/how-a-glitch-in-an-online-survey-replaced-the-word-yes-with-forks\/\">Anna Brown writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>We routinely ask the people who take our surveys to give us feedback about their experience. Were the survey questions clear? Were they engaging? Were they politically neutral? While we get a wide range of feedback on our surveys, we were surprised by a comment we received on an online survey in 2024: \u201cYou misspelled YES with FORKS numerous times.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The story about how Pew Research tracked down this bug is both hilarious and illustrative of how complex our tech world has become. It arose from several interconnected problems: a lightbox popup for survey instructions that triggered an automatic browser translation feature and a bizarre error in Google Translate that caused it to translate what it thought was the Spanish word \u201cyes\u201d into \u201cforks\u201d in English.<\/p>\n<p>Good thing James Joyce wasn\u2019t writing <em>Ulysses<\/em> with these tools or <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Molly_Bloom\">Molly Bloom\u2019s final soliloquy<\/a> might have seemed even more explicit (tip of the hat to Joseph S. Barrera III):<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I was a Flower of the mountain forks when I put the rose in my hair like the Andalusian girls used or shall I wear a red forks and how he kissed me under the Moorish Wall and I thought well as well him as another and then I asked him with my eyes to ask again forks and then he asked me would I forks to say forks my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him forks and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume forks and his heart was going like mad and forks I said forks I will Forks.<span style=\"background-color: initial; color: #303030;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"c-post__link\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/decoded\/2025\/03\/21\/how-a-glitch-in-an-online-survey-replaced-the-word-yes-with-forks\/\">Read original article<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the Pew Research Center\u2019s Decoded blog, Anna Brown writes: We routinely ask the people who take our surveys to give us feedback about their experience. 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