Tourist accidentally sparks bomb scare with wrong translation for ‘pomegranate’ (nypost.com)

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The words for pomegranate and grenade are the same in the Russian language, however, in Portuguese they are two separate words (with romã meaning pomegranate and granada translating to grenade) - a distinction that may have been lost during the language app’s translation.

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[-] CommanderCloon@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

Oof, in French as well it's the same word for both the fruit and the weapon

[-] agentshags@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

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