Mexico’s Tourism Website Tripped Up by Strange Translations
- Flagrant mistranslations suddenly appear, trend on Twitter
- English version of the site was shut down after the incident
Source: Visitmexico.com
The sometimes literal nature of automated translation programs has tripped up plenty of tourists -- or in the case of Mexico, its entire tourism board.
Operators of the Visitmexico.com website were left red-faced on Friday when the English version of the tourism information portal suddenly sprouted a series of comic or literal translations.