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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): simplified 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.

parent bjourne 2 days ago

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