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Sana @bigshika.com · 26/08/2026

the local government for my mom’s place in japan has their entire site translated by some bespoke system and it’s quite possibly the worst quality machine translation i’ve seen in a long time

Screenshot of a website. there’s a hyperlink with the text “There is no bean jam from library (easy Japanese).” followed by “User Menu”

The Japanese version of the page before.
“図書館のあんない（やさしい日本語)”, Guide to the Library (easy Japanese). I think the mistake comes from it parsing “あんない” (annai=guide) as two separate words, “あん” (an=red bean paste) and “ない” (nai=none).

Thea @thea.hutchings.gen.nz · 26/08/2026

I don’t expect bean jam from the library…