Google Translate recently surprised users by issuing cryptic messages in some translations about the apocalypse. Users on Reddit detected that if you type in the word "dog" 23 times, while choosing certain languages, like Hawaiian, the translator's algorithm will warn you that the "Doomsday Clock is three minutes at twelve" and that "Jesus' return" and the "end of times" are close.
Most of the languages where the hilarious glitch worked have been fixed by now, but Twitter users still managed to get some fun out of it, posting their findings.
If you type “dog” 20 times in google translator from Hawaiian to English it says this pic.twitter.com/EeyXRoRkIw
— Seb (@bastiann____) July 24, 2018
#LittleKnownFact — Apparently, if you let Google translate the word "dog" inserted 18 times from Maori to English, you get a message announcing the end times. pic.twitter.com/WNOdkP9Txu
— Jonathan Blackthorne (@Jon_Blackthorne) July 24, 2018
But some of them failed to get the "doomsday message."
@google is just trying to sell stuff not only in ads but also dog t-shirts at #GoogleTranslate pic.twitter.com/Nflun3Pp2f
— Marwin (@marwinmorado) July 24, 2018
At the time of publication, the Samoan language was still doing the trick when entering the word "dog" 17 times.
okay, so they patched the thing in google translate where typing "dog" 20 times in hawaiian and translating it to english gave terrifying results.
— jasmine (@mszarves) July 20, 2018
however, i learned certain languages share Properties of Gibberish with others, one that shares with Hawaiian being Samoan. pic.twitter.com/9lgffXe6jO
It seems that the algorithm hasn't been fully patched yet, as typing in "dog" 12 times and then adding "do" generates another odd message, suggesting that if you want to be certain of your salvation, you should get a dog:
"Do you have a dog to accept Jesus and be saved?"
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This is not the first time that netizens use Google Translate as a "fortuneteller." Some time ago, another glitch surfaced on the Russian part of the Internet: by typing a random number of the Russian letter "O" and then adding any text, thereafter setting the original language to Mongolian, it would produce various sentences that sounded like it was predicting a person's future.
