History BlindIdiotTranslation / FanWorks

* The Spanish community of Website/{{Wattpad}} is rife with fanfics that were translated from English to Spanish just by dumping the original stories into the Google Translator without proper checking before publishing. While the translator can be accurate for the most part, there are many words whose meaning may change depending on the context, and the automatic translation may default to one that's not the intended meaning in the original one (which a reader fluent in both languages can easily spot).

* The infamous ''WesternAnimation/{{Beast Wars}}'' fanfic ''FanFic/DinobotsOldTechnology'', translated word-to-word from the writers native French-Canadian to English via a dictionary with ''no corrections made otherwise''. And even better it's written in script form, rewriting an episode (one of the best of the series) for ''no apparent reason''. [[http://www.worlds-worst.com/worldsworst/fanfic/idea_detail.php?LinkID=106&CatID=2&Gamescope_Session=85a989209fd0c37b9492d065a4baf951 Rattrap: huh, maybe chopper face have changer his activation code again.]]

* The now sadly lost ''StarWars'' fic ''Murder of Image'' was full of these, which added to its SoBadItsGood appeal. Sample dialogue: "Out of here, you son-of-a-gun! In the Republic exist privacy, isn't it?"

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* The infamous ''WesternAnimation/{{Beast Wars}}'' fanic ''FanFic/DinobotsOldTechnology'', translated word-to-word from the writers native French-Canadian to English via a dictionary with ''no corrections made otherwise''. And even better it's written in script form, rewriting an episode (one of the best of the series) for ''no apparent reason''. [[http://www.worlds-worst.com/worldsworst/fanfic/idea_detail.php?LinkID=106&CatID=2&Gamescope_Session=85a989209fd0c37b9492d065a4baf951 Rattrap: huh, maybe chopper face have changer his activation code again.]]

* There exists a [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5968153/1/Teenager_Mystery_Dungeon_Fanfiction_Version Pokémon fanfic]] which the author attempted to translate, despite only having three years of French under his belt. [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5968197/1/Jeune_Donjon_Mystere_Version_Fanfiction The results were catastrophic.]]

* The fandom of ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'' sometimes suffers from this in a very special way. Being that the main characters are all [[AnthropomorphicPersonification anthropomorphized]] [[MoeAnthropomorphism representations]] of various world countries. It's is possible to find horribly mangled [[GratuitousForeignLanguage Japanese, French, German, Russian, or any other language]] in a single fic or even a single chapter. It can be quite... painful.
** On the topic of ''Hetalia: Axis Powers'', this is really the only explanation for the entirety of ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6319755/1/One_night_of_the_drop_of_rain One night of the drop of rain]]''. Sample quote: ''_TRANSLATION ERROR_ said the England in the surprised.'' There's a DramaticReading [[https://relativelylessimportant.tumblr.com/post/39521626498/thanks-to-tvtropes-for-bringing-this-hilariously here.]]

* The author of ''Fanfic/ThePrayerWarriors'' often includes parts that are [[GratuitousLatin in Latin]], which he says that [[SmartPeopleKnowLatin atheists and other stupid people will not be able to understand]]. However, the Latin is not well done, as "Ego vere fidelis in cuniculis" translates into "I am a true believer in mines." He later does an entire chapter in Danish, which comes out somewhat better.

* The fandom of ''Webcomic/AxisPowersHetalia'' sometimes suffers from this in a very special way. Being that the main characters are all [[AnthropomorphicPersonification anthropomorphized]] [[MoeAnthropomorphism representations]] of various world countries. It's is possible to find horribly mangled [[GratuitousForeignLanguage Japanese, French, German, Russian, or any other language]] in a single fic or even a single chapter. It can be quite... painful.
** On the topic of ''Axis Powers Hetalia'', this is really the only explanation for the entirety of ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6319755/1/One_night_of_the_drop_of_rain One night of the drop of rain]]''. Sample quote: ''_TRANSLATION ERROR_ said the England in the surprised.'' There's a DramaticReading [[https://relativelylessimportant.tumblr.com/post/39521626498/thanks-to-tvtropes-for-bringing-this-hilariously here.]]

* An in-universe example in ''Fanfic/TheParselmouthOfGryffindor'': many of the characters who originally spoke English and learned Parseltongue the slow way (or the other way around) struggle to render English phrases in Parseltongue and translate them literally, losing all meaning. For instance, Tsh trying to express "girlfriend" only comes up with an expression that literally means "female friend".

* [[Creator/HansVonHozel Hans von Hozel]]'s stories are like this.

* The now infamous ''WesternAnimation/{{Beast Wars}}'' fanic ''FanFic/DinobotsOldTechnology'', translated word-to-word from the writers native French-Canadian to English via a dictionary with ''no corrections made otherwise''. And even better it's written in script form, rewriting an episode (one of the best of the series) for ''no apparent reason''. [[http://www.worlds-worst.com/worldsworst/fanfic/idea_detail.php?LinkID=106&CatID=2&Gamescope_Session=85a989209fd0c37b9492d065a4baf951 Rattrap: huh, maybe chopper face have changer his activation code again.]]

-->'''Gia:''' The six peasant women will collect the seeds from the lands of the lord and at the summer's end the lord will in turn give a feast for them in his generosity... [[EnragedByIdiocy YOU FUCKING FUCK! IT’S NOT A MAGICAL RITUAL IT’S A GODDAMNED CATERING ORDER YOU IMBÉCILE]].