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Today, the @teammalaysia members like @legendchew @littlenewthings @alvinauh @viverridae @kadishakho and  @joelai in discord showed their skills conversing in so many languages. At the end of their conversation @danieldoughty commented that everyone know any language because of Google Translate...LOL.
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This reminds me of our Japanese friend, Koto. This story happened during her first month volunteering in our organisation.

All our staff are locals and mostly comes from the village where we installed the Micro hidro project.

Koto was so eager to learn Bahasa Melayu that when she have no one to ask to translate, she use the Google Translate apps. There this one time we chat in our staff Whatsapp group saying that "Topo mau bayar bill air, tu empangan mau pecah sudah", which actually means "Topo, our staff wants to go back to his village to be with his wife who he have not seen for months".

She copied and pasted to Google Translate and it comes out like this.
<h3>"Topo want to pay water bill, the dam broke out already".</h3>

Then she asked us in the group "Why Topo want to pay the water bill?? 

We all just laughed.

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Then there's one time my boss typed "tu kerbau mau tarik dulu baru buat kerja.." means don't be like the buffulo, you drag them then they do the work. My boss wants our staff to be independent and have  some initiative to finish the work assigned to them.

Somehow, Koto googled translate like this 
<h3>"the buffalo would like to drag it first to work"</h3>

Then she commented "I dont understand... We need Buffalo to finish the task?"

We just laughed and explained the meaning to her then she understood.

Google Translate is a powerful and helpful tools but the translation can be misleading sometime.
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