Problem with Google translating Stack Overflow [duplicate]

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How to make users aware that they're reading translated content?

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Patricia came to the site using Google Translator and, as the top-frame is removed, was unaware that, actually, the community is English-speaking.

Ahahahahahaha! What a hilarious misunderstanding. But Google Translate does that to you, I have seen people assume the exact same thing. — Pekka, Aug 31, 2010 at 12:48
@waffles I suppose it's a feature request to not break iframes for sites like Google Translate — Yi Jiang, Aug 31, 2010 at 13:05
Weird the way it translates vote counts to spelled-out words — Benjol, Aug 31, 2010 at 13:07
@Yi, I guess we could do that, but then again is it worth the effort of maintaining a whitelist, javascript hacks and so on for something that happens once or twice a year? — waffles, Aug 31, 2010 at 13:10
@wafles♦: shouldn't you have written @Yij, you know, first three letters? — Tobias Kienzler, Aug 31, 2010 at 13:27
closely related / almost-dupe: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/62939/… — Tobias Kienzler, Aug 31, 2010 at 13:41
@Tobias Kienzler: Actually, that one is the dupe (same user, different SO question). Didn't think of searching for "Patricia" before I posted that :) — Piskvor left the building, Aug 31, 2010 at 13:47
@Piskvor: But yours is more informative, dupes do not necessarily qualify as such by being second — Tobias Kienzler, Aug 31, 2010 at 13:58

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I really should do this sometimes... some of the translations are hilarious for the Chinese one. For instance, you're called 松饼, which is correct, and [always-friday-in-iceland] turns into 一直到星期五在冰, which is... less correct
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