Your Million Mile Vehicle Ain't Got Nuttin' On This...Translation Error

Kinja'd!!! by "AdverseMartyr" (ewilliamson)
Published 02/08/2017 at 08:32

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When you put it through Google Translate it says that the vehicle mileage is 6.7 million kilometers. It looks like the Kanji is the same as others that get translated in the tens of thousands, but I can’t read kanji so what do I know. Quite a shock to see a price of about $9,000 for a vehicle with that many kilometers on it.


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Kinja'd!!! "RT" (rt-p)
02/08/2017 at 08:35, STARS: 1

Link?

Kinja'd!!! "Kat Callahan" (kyosuke)
02/08/2017 at 08:36, STARS: 0

 = 10,000

 = 1,000,000

 = 6,700,000 I believe. Numbers that large are rarely written entirely in kanji.

Kinja'd!!! "AdverseMartyr" (ewilliamson)
02/08/2017 at 09:15, STARS: 1

Kinja...I closed that tab, but here is another one:

http://www.goo-net.com/usedcar/spread/goo/19/700012029430170205006.html

Kinja'd!!! "AdverseMartyr" (ewilliamson)
02/08/2017 at 09:18, STARS: 0

Oh, the number itself (6.7) wasn’t in Kanji, just the . Which I still can’t recognize easily... 

Kinja'd!!! "TheTurbochargedSquirrel" (thatsquirrel)
02/08/2017 at 10:41, STARS: 1

Was it 6.7? My intuition says that would mean 6.7*10,000 which would be 67,000. 

Kinja'd!!! "avenuecue" (avenuecue)
02/08/2017 at 10:42, STARS: 0

5.8km = 58,000 km

79 = 790,000 yen (7,056.28 USD)

Kinja'd!!! "BritishLeyland™" (leylandcars)
02/08/2017 at 11:01, STARS: 1

Dat Japanese quality.

Kinja'd!!! "AdverseMartyr" (ewilliamson)
02/08/2017 at 20:18, STARS: 0

Yes, it was this. For some reason google translate reads it as million sometimes. It was shocking the first time, and s.till causes a second of disconnect when I see recurrences of it.

I’m guessing there is an artifact in the code of some numbers that makes it think there is another character to indicate millions. Maybe they had  for something else, copy/pasted, deleted the , then google finds that deleted character still there somehow. At least that is the only possibility I can think of...unless google is sentient and trying to steer me away from certain cars.