English
Translategate
From translate + -gate.
Formed from translate + -gate
Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- ‘to bear, carry’
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Latin trānsferō ‘to transport, carry across, translate’
Latin trānslātus
Anglo-Norman translater
Middle English translaten ‘to transport, translate, transform’
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The story
The subreddit r/TranslateGate was created in 2017.
Today it means
name A 2017 glitch where Google Translate generated strange translations for phrases from some languages.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Translategate