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Not the OnionEnglish · 1 year ago

Tourist accidentally sparks bomb scare with wrong translation for ‘pomegranate’

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Tourist accidentally sparks bomb scare with wrong translation for ‘pomegranate’

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Not the OnionEnglish · 1 year ago

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A tourist accidentally sparked a bomb scare at a restaurant by mistranslating the local word for “pomegranate.”

The words for pomegranate and grenade are the same in the Russian language, however, in Portuguese they are two separate words (with romã meaning pomegranate and granada translating to grenade) - a distinction that may have been lost during the language app’s translation.

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Oof, in French as well it’s the same word for both the fruit and the weapon

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