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If you always have all your digital stuff set to English you may not be aware of how often those of us who use multi-lingual interfaces come across bad auto-translation that force us to do a double-take. (worst case they can of course be very dangerous).

This is from an email log in Gmail today.

The label "Delstat" is presumable from "State" in English, meaning what condition/status the email is in.

But delstat in Swedish essentially refers to U.S. State. Which makes this information appear very odd 😂

Part of a screenshot from an email log with an arrow pointing to the label

🔗 Originally posted on Akkoma

5 Aug 2025, 13:06
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