Google has been caught up in an embarrassing gaffe unveiling one of its own products.
In yesterday’s keynote presentation at Google I/O, CEO Sundar Pichai presented the addition of 24 languages to its Google Translate service.On the slide Pichai was presenting, the text in Arabic reads ‘Sudanese Language’ written backward – as unlike European languages, Arabic is written from right to left.
TechCrunch said the right answer would have been لهجة سودانية — which means ‘Sudanese dialect’ or ‘Sudanese slang’ — seemingly what the company was trying to communicate. The script made Arabic speakers raise an eyebrow, while another Twitter user pointed out an error with the Swiss German spelling — usually written as ‘Schweizerdeutsch’ — too.A Twitter user pointed out the Urdu translation made little sense, breaking it down in a thread.
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