Exploring Wikipedia's Worst Translations
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- čas přidán 10. 05. 2024
- This week, I used Google Translate to annihilate Laotian Wikipedia. Welcome to the grand opening of the Museum of Bad Translations. Enjoy this stinky exhibition of the worst translations of history, geography and science.
CHAPTERS:
Intro - 0:00
History - 0:13
Countries - 4:08
Animals - 10:50
MUSIC:
Museum (Hall) - Animal Crossing New Leaf
E1M1 / At Doom's Gate - Doom
Underground Corruption - Terraria
Happy Adventure, Delightful Adventure - Super Mario RPG
Hisstocrat Boss Music - Super Mario 3D World
Roulette Bonus - Super Mario 3D World
World 8 - Super Mario 3D World
World 11 - Super Mario 3D World
Sunscreen and lychees thanks - Komedie
Plot twist: The translator worked flawlesly and this is just how Wikipedia is in Laos
Guess Laos just loves buddah
As a Lao person, no translators can properly translate. I translated a ton of words into Lao and I was laughing when it called stuff like a rat into a trash can😂.
@@serbiancountryballs is it an issue with the translators being lackluster, or is it the language that's just particularly hard to translate? (genuine question)
@@spookysomeone I think it's the language, it probably has the same problem with Chinese where new words that are coming into the language from abroad are replicated with the letters that sound similar, however the letters on their own already mean something and mean completely different thing when you separate them from a word.
@@spookysomeone maybe it’s the Lao language. Because every word is literal. giraffe IS long necked deer when you listen it out.
TIL that Buddha is the biggest political figure in the world.
TIAL that Thanks is also the most common scientific slang in the world
And that Croatia is Türkiye (🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷).
@@californium-2526 turkroach 🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗
Of course! Did you see his hand?
It’s actually Thanks
This sounds like a time traveler moved an entire mountain
Or just accidentally placed auschwitz on the moon inwhich changed a lot of stuff
THIS JOKE IS TOO GOOD
Best comment I've read today, thanks.
As a Belarusian i can confirm that our national anthem is "There is a bug"
How does it go?
My fav song ever fr nothing could ever top There Is A Bug like fr
Can you confirm that your flag is "Sunset over the swamp"?
Well Tarakan is indeed a bug.
The bug is Lukashenko.
Time traveler: moves a chair
The timeline:
Moves the chair then moves it back
After the buddha was there
“Me Donbass!”
“Liverpool committed war crimes during WW2”
“Now The Buddha put him in hell”
"Liverpool in hell"
Actually, Putin crab is an old meme in Russia. Once upon a time he said that he worked "like a slave" (meaning very hard) in the past which is "kak rab" in Russian and can be perceived as "kak krab" meaning "like a crab" which inspired many photoshops and "funny" pictures where Putin is a crab
I was aware of the meme but never knew the origins, thank you.
cá portán
Anything mocking Putin is a little funny.
I just know that this were certainly Russians who wrote those articles. You can see the proof in the comments to this video
putin crab and lenin mushroom are the most important memes in russian meme culture, they're still at least a bit relevant even after like ten or so years
i remember a time where i was searching through wikipedia’s other sites in languages, and i found one that was quite not what i was expecting, in that wikipedia it was autotranslated and “wikipedia, the free encyclopedia” was turned into “How to get rid of Acne on your PC”
AHAHHAHAJAJAJ
I’ve been searching through the Igbo one and the statistics page title is translated as “There are Many Graves.” Users seems to get translated as “prisoners” a lot. North America is translated as “America’s Sunshine” and Africa is translated as “Heaven”
How do you auto translate it
@@pickledkool-aid Africa is Heaven confirmed
r/wooosh
1:58 "ho ho no more" makes it sound like they killed Santa
no
@@Caterev0038cool yes
@@Caterev0038coolyes
Thanos: I am inevitable.
Hitler: And I am...AUTISM.
He just like me fr fr
I am existence. I am autism
me fr
Well dang hitler actually had a program to kill autistic children so
Hitler be like: I am autism. I am visible in your children, but I am invisible to you UNTIL IT IS TOO LATE
"Liverpool in Hell"
"Autism or Liverpool is a German nationalist politician" GOOGLE TRANSLATE VIPLATED LIVERPOOL
To be fair, "The absolute empire of Christianity" is a godly name for a government.
As a Buddhist, I can't belive the guy that founded my religion is in charge of so many governments.
Maybe this is the timeline where instead of becoming a holy man he went into politics like his father wanted.
@@Sewblonpolitical Buddha
@@n14ck Indeed.
He CAN be Chakravartin!
This is even funnier when you know that there's an actual meme of Putin being a crab
That's why I clicked.
It's an old and kinda obscure meme in Russia.
I thought it looked familiar
in an alt universe putin is a crab
lenin is a mushroom
The translation of Putin as "Mr. Crab" was actually quite precise. It is one of his actual nicknames that people called him in late 2010s :)
А ведь всё пошло с того, что Ленин - гриб..
*late 2000s-early 2010s
@@dogma_b пошло с рабов на галерах
Kinda sounds like Mr. Krabs
Ig they're both greedy, but in different ways
@@dogma_b не только гриб, но и радиоволна
This is what teachers think when you ask if you can use Wiki as a source in your project:
6:10 based
1:22 So apparently if I ever tell a Laotian person that I’m autistic they’re gonna think I’m a Nazi, or even a reincarnated Hitler
I feel bad for The Liverpool fans who live there
@@victorlolxd7347 LIVERPOOL AS IN THE BEATLES???
@@sberky98Liverpool as in the sports team
@@victorlolxd7347 ok
@@victorlolxd7347 Liverpool as in the city
as a laotian i can confirm that mr. crabs did indeed declare a prag military move in the ukrainian eye
I thought you said “as a location”
😭😭😭😭😭
I can confirm we are in fact the most pure Arab people in Germany
Hey ! We Arabs, are not like that ! We are kind and sweet !
Supreme race fight the infidel
I cannot belive Autism Liverpool was in hell
I think the word "Aryan" in Laotian was originally written there but was detected by the translator as "Arab"
Masha allah the mufti of blessed german people
8:50 Are we not going to talk about how the area for Japan is 2.2 km^2?!
Apparently Laos knows what rising sea levels will achieve in a hundred years.
It may be inaccurate now but people will call Laos a country of prophets in 2123! Mark my words.
It shrank in the wash
GEOMETRY DASH 2.2??!!?2?2?!
Friendly reminder: If multiverse theory is correct, all of these translated articles are unironically true somewhere in the vastness of infinity.
Or, If the universe is infinite, this is true on an infinite number of planets in this universe
Woah
As someone who has never been to New Zealand, I can confirm the king was indeed once a mosquito.
and his name is Elizabeth
@@troev the II
As someone who is a kiwi, i can confirm that the king is a mosquito
@@darkthu_draws WAS a mosquito. He is a king now.
@@amalayperson7208 ye sorry wrong grammar
Describe the 1960s in 2 words
6:52
😂
I see what you did there!
10:57 As a Singaporean I can confirm that we are the human enemy that defines our country
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War with Elephants
The entire bit from 1:09 to 2:09 was one of the funniest things I've ever seen. It made me laugh so hard I thought I was gonna pass out because my chest hurt so much.
Hitler being called Autism was spoiled in the thumbnail but 'Liverpool' caught me way off guard, after that for some reason 'Hogus father of Hagar' just sent me.
Let's not forget the cherry on top, that being 'Liverpool in hell' and the holocaust being translated to fucking 'Hooray' of all things made me cry.
Honorable mention being our supreme leader Kim-Jong-Un being called Acne-Cream and the Buddha for him and his religion being so successful around the world.
I have not laughed this much in a long time, thank you
I even forgot how to laugh before watching this
same :ʼD
same
same
same here!
This is literally randomly generated humor and I love it.
“In the future, entertainment will be randomly generated.” -a wise tomato
@@therealspeedwagon1451 Actually it was a wise cucumber
@@itsjimwaffle right I forgot
Also 🤓
My humor is randomly generated.
Earlier I was laughing at the idea of my grandma having a twin for no reason
VeggieTales was right all along
Time traveler: moves a chair
History:
History: yes.
2:00: Holocaûst --> Hooray! [Ho ho (no more)]
Totally got me off guard
As a Belarusian I am proud to say that buddha is indeed our prime minister 🙏🙏🙏
Is a united kingdom
- The Buddha cLao 1801
He would be better than Lukashenka for sure
@@iamothemakhnovist20 You are quite a based person :)
*dong sound*
@@iamothemakhnovist20 the founder of Buddhism (Gautama?..) wasn't really a guy who wants to rule...
Though he'd still be better.
Imagine if there was an alternate universe where all of these wikipedia articles were true
UH OH
I wonder what the "era of chewing gum" would look like
Buddhism has a strong presence in that alternate reality.
Long live god emperor Buddha
I'd visit Soda, Korea.
6:46 As a Russian, I find it the most accurate description of the current president
6:10 based
5:10 The best part isn't even "Plastic City".
It's the fact that "Città del Vaticano" (Vatican City) was somehow translated to "Città del Varano" (Monitor lizard City).
Oh my god, THE POPE IS A LIZARD!
With how professional this is I was shocked at how little recognition, get this man to 500k+ subs
I thought he did until I saw this comment
joseppi 2
@@evill01his channel is a month old and he’s already at 10 k that’s fucking great for a start. Hopefully he keeps his momentum
@@evill01his channel is a month old and he’s already at 10 k that’s fucking great for a start. Hopefully he keeps his momentum
I mean it’s not *that* well produced
Ah yes, my homeland, The Republic of the Internet
I live there too, sometimes!
I live in the Republic of Internet aswell aswell as living in the UK
When are we gonna tell them that we own the entire internet?
it's everyone homeland now
Congrats, you just successfully made a really strange WW2 alternate timeline. Honestly, I could see this on some questionable website and written by someone who's on some... Questionable substances.
Can you imagine if this actually happend? 🤣
@@victorlolxd7347I can make it happen.
It would be absolutely disastrous honestly 😅@@victorlolxd7347
1:22 I literally died laughing
me toooooooo
no
*a u t i s i m*
I'm happy I'm not the only one who does this lol
Translating japanese Wikipedia is always fun because sometimes it's better than English Wikipedia or makes zero sense
How do you do it?
@@geofroggo or native
Yeah, I checked just now and, for example, the biography of Hitler in Japanese is much longer than in English.
hello emperor CrabofYes
1:39 yep that definitely looks like hell
no
Once I did a wild ride on wikipedia and translating it, that time found king Carol II of Romania being named "Big dumb of Roma".
Oh man, wikipedia translations can become quite wild😂
4:48 Scotland, or Salad.
Man, I've been calling it Internet all these years.
5:53 Exactly. one cockroach has been ruling there for like 28 years
Пхаахаххахах
Усатый таракан
Every Buddha:
3:12
4:35
5:31 (this one counts)
6:04
7:48
This Wikipédia loves Budha, probaly a budist
8:59 “the nation anthem is hardware” *Home Depot theme starts playing
Man, you almost killed me due to laughter. 10/10
You can actually figure out a bit about Laotin from this. Like I assume the word for "crab" is similar enough to in spelling "Putin" that Google translate gets confused. You can also see the language English is always just called "the UK" which makes me think that the two are the same word in Laotin with interchangeable meanings.
Can confirm: crab is ປູ (pu), which absolutely confuses the translator, and ອັງກິດ (angkid) is used for both the language (ພາສາອັງກິດ, pasa angkid) and the country (ປະເທດອັງກິດ, pathed angkid)
Also, the same crab thing is why Emperor Puyi was translated as Emperor Crab
@@throughcracker6591 no wonder Sun Yat-sen rebelled against Qing. It was ruled by a literal crab
In Russian the crab poaching season is called something similar to 'putin', I think
There's an actual joke about Putin being a crab, because some people misheard his "rabotal kak rab na galierach" (I worked like a slave on galleys) as "rabotal kak krab na galierach" (i worked like a crab on galleys)
According to 8:49, not only does Japan use a currency, it also has an astounding landmass of 2,2 km².
12:50
Be
• Mouse bag
I love these they are so entertaining!
The capital isPositive
Not as entertaining as Buddha, the last time I saw him
You have to suffer when visiting Norway
Liverpool in hell
1:56 The Nazis proposed a law prohibiting the marriage between non-Germans and New Zealanders
South Korea's national anthem is the Home Depot theme 8:58
5:02 as a Norwegian, I can confirm
…that this is wrong
🤯
If I remember correctly, the reason why Putin was translated to 'Mr Crab', is because in Russian the word 'putin' also refers to a crab hunting season. When they are typically caught to be eaten as seafood.
"putina" means fishing season and not crab, I doubt we have a place to hunt crabs. The actual reason is simpler-Putin said once in an interview that he had to work like a slave when he was young; like a slave sounds pretty much the same as like a crab, so we had a bunch of memes and caricatures
@@axl7762 No but as in, why his surname was automatically translated to 'crab'.
But aren't these articles translated from Laos? I think another comment on here said that the word for crab in Laos is "pu" or something
@@mellow_mallow I initially assumed that this was one of those 'translated through X amount of languages' memes.
@@DogDogGodFog oh, understandable. It's incoherent enough to be one.
Man, the Buddha sure does get around.
"The Philippines is one of two Asian nations that most people respect."
Don't leave me hanging like that. What is the other one?
0:26 the Nazi era was just really hungry ig
Hungry for Hungary.
@@PorterStats3british food, still almost bombed (at least for autism)
Plot twist: The translation was accurate.
You mean dinos did the nono thing before germany?
@@claudetheclaudeqc6600 yes
they were right about Obama's spouse
The Australia one is kinda accurate for who was in charge from 2007-2008. The Governor-General (the successor) was Michael Jeffery, and the Prime Minister was Kevin Rudd. So it's almost right, just 15 years out of date.
The editing makes this so much funnier. Great job. Subscribed.
6:00 geometry dash reference
2.2!!!!!
True
OCTOBER 2.2???
@@limitless_valleyDecember 20
7:45 as someone who live in Thailand. Yeah this sounds about right lmao
This is extra funny because "Putin is a crab" is a meme in Russia
As a Singaporean, I can confirm that we are a completely separate group of living things and are different from animals
I have Adolf Hitler, and it wasn’t self-diagnosed.
7:07
Nguyễn Phú Trọng: you are in a hurry
Nguyễn Xuân Phúc: you are an scoundrel
Phạm Minh Chính aka Farms Minches
Autistic Liverpudlians trembling right now
7:14 that’s probably related to the diacritics getting messed up and misinterpreted as numbers (VNI maybe)
10:45 (insert unfunny joe mama joke here)
joe swanson
Joe Biden
🗿
Joe papa
I have not laughed this hard in weeks! This was amazing. How this channel doesn't have more views and subscribers is beyond me.
5:17 okay okay credit where credit is due this sounds pretty dope
1:50 fun fact: I founded the party.
10:34 I love how he skipped Brazil's language "Portugal", not "Portuguese" the language, but "Portugal" the Country
Mr. Crab:
"SPANGEBOBBBBBBBB! why the fuck did you let Zelensky steal the Krabby Patty Secret Formuler?"
"Give the conscripts... supplies??? ARHARHARHARHARHAR Spangebob 'me boi, that costs MONEY!"
2:30 Well, for Putin "Crab" is a real nickname after his famous phrase "Vse 8 let ya pahal kaK RAB na galerah (or "Entire 8 years, I was working as a slave on a galley" or "Все 8 лет я пахал, каК РАБ на галерах"). It was spoken the way it was easy to perceive as "kak krab" (as a krab on a galley), hence the nickname.
So, It is a pretty good translation, tbh
2:36 Yesterday at the time of this comment, SEP 15 2023, is the day of this comment, which on SEP 14 at 9:00, I was just watching the first season of SpongeBob, and it was kinda funny. And the Mr Krabs joke was hilarious, so deja vu, I guess?
Kid: When i grow up I want to become an astronaut
Cancer:
12:48
8:33 What I can say, pretty realistic.
5:25 i see no inaccuracies here
average turkish man
in berlin
3:42, this killed me so hard
AcHnI CrHeHeMe??
7:31 HE LORE!!!
Characters in the Mistranslated History Cinematic Universe: He, She, Me, I, and The Buddha.
Weren't the Chinese emperors also named Thanks
So this is why mr crabs had war flashback 2:31
11:07 kind of looks like dark chocolate melted on a bench, so it’s not entirely wrong.
I like to imagine the reason this is so incoherent and nonsensical is because there's very few Laotian moderators to correct and check things so people who speak Laotian can just plagiarize to their hearts content. That and paired with the fact that Laotian doesn't receive the same attention a language like Spanish or Arabic would get from Google.
Lao is relatively hard to translate because tons of words are really literal. We use what they are to say what they are. Hitler is autism (you know why) cat is roughly meow so as tons of other animals
If people were just plagiarizing others, then they would just plagiarize the most easily available and popular texts. So the errors would just be the most common errors, not completely zany errors.
Laughed my ass off so hard at this my lungs nearly collapsed. Good work. Keep it up.
4:03 oh i can understand what It tries there, vessel -> vehicle -> car
The word is supposed to be 'son'.
@@wizardninjapenguin hm but it can also be that. It's true according to the bible that jesus is some sort of "vessel" of god no?
@@e.d.gproductions7989 The Christadelphian belief is that Jesus was the son of God, the same way that other people are sons of their fathers. And that Jesus was not himself God, but acting in accordance with his will.
0:49 i see, a fellow wolfenstein player
5:12 "Stato della Citt2 del Varano"
"Plastic city"
It's the least landlocked country in the world
@@latexbeeppuro
@@clarabel_adoring meep
The first mention of HE at 7:26?
Characters in the Mistranslated History Cinematic Universe: He, She, Me, I, and The Buddha.
Please make more of these I’m dying from laughter 💀
no clickbait. i got exactly what i came for. you earned a subscriber for that one. i haven't laughed this hard in a while
i just finished the video and im currently in tears from how much im laughing
except the premise is a lie
2:57 as a Thai I think that’s cambodian and that actually means queen elizabeth II
As a Cambodian that doesn't look like Khmer
But yeah it was Queen Elizabeth II
It's was laos.
@@bewearstar9462 ik
Fully expected you to have way more subs this content is amazing! Can't wait until you blow up! (Metaphorically not physically)
The way you present your videos and the humour in them is amazing. I was baffled to find that you have under 100k subs. Please keep making awesome videos!
6:19 technically true
Time traveller: *Bumps chair*
The timeline:
1:22 This got me laughing so hard 😂
This channel is so good, the edits, the subject of the videos, the humor. Brilliant
Kevin was genuinely our prime minister a decade ago. I imagine Laos Wikipedia doesn’t update the Australia page that often...
0:31 laughing hard on this
I was tearing up😂
This was beautiful.
Perfect for laughing loudly and not sleeping.
I crave more.
I'm so glad that CZcams recommended your channel to me
same
Oh nice, you used the Siivagunner King for a Day art of Mr. Krabs at 2:41.