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Posted by Gregory Shoda on June 9, 2026, 10:52:52, in reply to "Lost in Translation"
I've been using Google translate to read the old Japanese naval warship soft cover booklets that I have collected over the years and have run across the same kind of word puzzles. The model company may be using machine translation in their ads. 
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So I'm flipping through ads on line and saw several with an Atlanta-class light cruiser and the caption "Auckland." I knew there was never a cruiser transferred to New Zealand or at least never a case I'd never heard about. It finally occurred to me that 'Auckland' was as close to "Oakland" as an Asian translator could get.
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