Comment by bjourne
2 hours ago
Google's AI is extremely prone to making up random shit that doesn't exist. Swedish is an agglutinative language (like German) so you can join multiple words together to form new words: tomat (tomato) + jos (juice) => tomatjos. Most conjoined words are nonsense, but Google will still happily "explain" what they mean. Some examples:
tangentbordskanin (keyboard bunny): keycaps for mechanical keyboards with bunny images on them
indianbokföring (Indian accounting): simple accounting outside of legal norms
bokföringsindian (Indian accountant): informal, older term for an auditor
potatisbensinskämt (potatoe petrol joke): a type of classic absurd riddles or word plays
nagelfis (nail fart): bulging pain in fingers after having been outside in extreme cold without gloves
And it regularly lies about local stuff, e.g., it says that coffee shop A has lower prices than coffee shop B when it's the opposite in reality.
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