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Google translate still spits out some pretty funny translations

Portuguese: Este lago parece-me bem piscoso. Vamos pescar para nos divertirmos.

Google: This lake looks very fishy to me. Let's go fishing for fun.

Actual : This lake looks full of fish. Let's have some fun fishing.

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"Missed it by that much". Posted almost exactly the same within 30 seconds of you...

Actually thought that I had some how double posted.

Lol you even formatted it similarly

DeepL (which is sometimes better than Google) returns almost the same translation:

This lake looks pretty fishy to me. Let's go fishing for fun.

Maybe the language that the book uses is dated making those machine translation systems trip up?

"piscoso" is a very specific term (if I google that I get just dictionary entries, almost no actual use). Replacing it with "cheio de peixe" (full of fish) would make the translation much easier

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