脸书把习主席翻译成Shithole的原因找到了：

Facebook為何會將「習近平」英文翻譯成「糞坑」呢？原來，Facebook自動翻譯是從緬甸文翻譯成英文的。而緬甸文翻譯習近平的名字音譯「吉金植酸」，緬甸文直譯就是「糞便屁股」。Facebook自動翻譯就將緬甸文「糞便屁股」翻譯成「糞坑」shithole。所以不是Facebook的錯。


 https://t.co/eW6e8WCfdb

Facebook Apologizes for Vulgar Translation of Chinese Leader’s Name

New York Times 

By Mariel Padilla
Published Jan. 18, 2020
Updated Jan. 19, 2020, 1:46 a.m. ET

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When Facebook’s system finds a word that does not have a translation, it makes a guess and replaces it with a word with similar syllables, Mr. Stone said. After running tests, Facebook found that multiple Burmese words starting with “xi” and “shi” translated to the vulgarity in English.

U Po Myint, the chairman of the China Myanmar Friendship Association, said he thought that Facebook may have intentionally mistranslated Mr. Xi’s name because there are other more likely renderings of his given name in Burmese.

“But Facebook already apologized for their mistake so we can forgive,” Mr. Po Myint said.

Kenneth Wong, a Burmese language instructor at the University of California in Berkeley, Calif., also said that when he first saw the translation he thought someone intentionally made it to embarrass Mr. Xi.


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But on closer inspection of the original Burmese post, Mr. Wong said, he could see how a machine would make that error. Mr. Xi’s name sounds similar to “chi kyin phyin,” which roughly translates to “feces hole buttocks” in Burmese, Mr. Wong said.