This translation fail may be the greatest of all time
Well that's awkward.
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Translating languages can be a tricky business.
Misspellings can happen, subtle meanings can get lost -- or, as in the case of the translation below, the whole thing can just come out totally, brilliantly wrong.
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Hend Amry shared that photo from Iraq's Erbil International Hotel on Tuesday. It's since racked up nearly 15,000 retweets.
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It wasn't the only mistranslation Amry spotted, either:
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Glorious.
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