"62 years ago I was killed at a midwifery clinic"
[This is a guest post by Cyrus Shaoul]
I am a long time LL reader and I came across an interesting machine translation error today.
When my Japanese friend sent me this sentence:
62年前のこの日に慶應義塾大学病院で命を授かりました。
I was flummoxed by the verb 授かる [VHM: sazukaru {"be gifted / endowed with (an award / title); to be blessed (e.g., with a child); be granted / taught; to be given something of great value / a treasure, by deities or someone of higher social class"}] at the end of the sentence, so I asked Google Translate for help and lo and behold, it said:
"On this day, 62 years ago, I died at Keio University Hospital."
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