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The presence or absence of period is enough for Google Translate to create entirely different translations!

My link above doesn't have a period at the end. HackerNews cuts off the period from the end of the URL it seems.

So clicking on this link,

https://translate.google.com/#la/en/Duis%20gravida%20orci%20...

gives It's a child in a candy, but if you then manually add a period to the end of the sentence, you'll get, Designers in the film which, unlike in the United States.



omg, that's hilarious!




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