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Just wanted to let you know that Google Translate is really funny sometimes.

The /de/ page translates "fork away" with "weggabeln" which is really not what you meant (although it is really really funny).

A better translation would be "erstellen Sie Ihren eigenen Fork".

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Thanks, I'll fix that right away!

Knowing some French I know that the translations can be a bit.. special sometimes. For this app all I can hope for is than in most cases the poor translations are better than no translations.

Have you checked out https://www.deepl.com/en/translator already?

I haven't heard of it before, but I'll certainly check it out right now, thanks!

DeepL translation

"fork away" -> "Weggabelung" ... not much better :\

Yea I would not even bother with automatic translations.

Translating the app was more an exercise in figuring out the technical and marketing details for translating an app. Hopefully the translations are entirely unusable at least.

I’d hope they weren’t entirely unusable?

Yup, what you said. Don’t listen to me.

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