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Actress Lindsay Lohan's translation error results in humorous Arabic tweet

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Apparently, she intended to send the message "You're beautiful" but actually sent the message "You're a donkey":

http://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/cel...ells-fans-youre-an-ass/ar-AAbt1vc?ocid=HPCDHP

I felt this might be relevant to us here, as we have had multiple translation issues over the same Arabic issue with the word "camel" being mistranslated as "beauty" in Arabic MERS articles. There is apparently a relation in the Arabic root word causing this issue.
 
That is a classic! I'm grateful for machine translators, but I'd be hesitant to try to use them for personal communications, especially on Twitter where you don't have the space to add a caveat about having used a machine translator.
 
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