Google translate does Georgian animals...

[Jubal]

OK, so I asked Google to translate for me the names on the list of Georgian mammal species and the results are so amazing that I absolutely had to share them. You should be able to get the original list at: https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ka&u=http://geofauna.ge/index.php%3Fpage%3Dgeo_nature_single%26id%3D1768&prev=search

So let's play a game. One point for every correctly guessed species on this list

FAMILY	GENUS	SPECIES
Spit out	Spots	Opthalmic Strip
Okay	Teeth	The teeth white
	Teeth	The teeth are small
	Bags	BIGA SALCONNIC
	Brown biscuits	Little brown biscuits
		So how are you?
		Caucasian brown biscuits
		Caucasian little brown biscuits
	Many more	Pudding
Bulldogs bats	Bulldog bats	Bulldogs
Brushes	Bruises	Bruce Black
		Bruce White
To find out	Bearings	Bear the broom
Dolphin	Shorts Dolphins	The usual dolphin is short
	Appliances	Apelina
Hazel	The earrings are water	I'm watering
	Forensic Forest	The red is a familiar one
	Hammer krcutus	Hazel ordinary
	Memoirs Prometheus	Memoir is Prometheus
	Hamsters are medium	Zamuna Rade
		Hazel brands
	Memeres of snow	I'm a European snowman
		The Gudauri snowfall
		Memorable is Robert
	Memeres Series	I'm a common man
		Memorandum is Schildowski
		The message is public
		The Dagestan is the Memorial
		I'm the bushes
Hedgehog	The hedgehogs	Eastern European hedgehog
		Southern hedgehog
Sea pig	Sea pigs	Sea pigs
Mouse	Mice forest and field	Mouse field
		Mouse Asian
		Mouse cursor
		The mouse on the forest is small
		Mouse shirt
	Little mechids	The front line is in me
	Little mice	Little mouse
	House mice	Home mouse
		The Macedonian mouse
	Rats	Gray rat
		Black rat
Tiredness	Thickers	Trenchous Caucasian
		The twilight is blind
Deer	Shells	Dread European
		Rope cymbals
	True deer	Deer is noble
Cats	Cats	Lily cat (Subspecies: Caucasian lady cat)
		Forest cat (Subspecies: Caucasian forest cat)
	Lynx	Lynx Caucasian
	Panther	Jick (leopard)
Marten	Go	Go to the usual
	Marten	A white marten
		Forest marten
		Kerchum
	Sparkling	Tap of the tap
		Has gone (Subspecies: The Caucasian has gone)
		The queen
		Rattle
Rabbit land	The hare in the land	Gerbo is small
		Gerbo is great
I do not know	I'm confused	I'm getting upset
True slopes	Berry salads	White stripes
Semiconductors	Mountain goats	Nivari Kavazi
		The Tribal Caucasian
		East Caucasian turquoise
	Newspaper	Kurtsikhi (jeyarani)
	Chances	Chameleon ordinary
Pig	Boats	Wild boar
Dogs	Wolves	grey Wolf
	Foxes	The fox is normal
Dysfunctional	Forest diggs	The sound
	Dyslexia	Dyslexic
Squirrels	Squirrels	Squirrel is normal
		Squirrel Caucasian
Horsepower	Horses	Kanjari (donkey)
With eyes	Sighnotes	Nose south
		The nose is big
		The nose is small
		The nose-wolf
Bruising	Bruises	A slap in the forest
		The curse of the Caucasian
		Write to Kazbegi
		Crouching Cluck
Nightclub	Hurry up	Hurriedly European
		Hastily Asian
	Stolitines	Celestine desert
		Selatin North
		Celtic late
	Bumps	Ordinary bakery
	The caskets	The fog is long lasting
		A knife is sharp
		A three-color figure
		The lavish
		A poetic figure
		The poem of Nepal
	Blues	Megamura giant
		Meghamura is small
		Meghamura Riza
	Pipitives	Pipette in the Mediterranean
		Pipette Forest
		The pipette is dwarf
		The pipette is small
	Leather	Pipette leather
	Brahms	Umno brown
		Alpine
	Two-color bats	Two-color bats

[Glaurung]

Somehow I sense that Google Translate hasn't had to do Georgian very often...

Or maybe it's been hijacked by a surreal sentence generator:
- The usual dolphin is short
- The earrings are water
- The mouse on the forest is small

EDIT: More seriously, I suspect it would be interesting to translate back from the Googlish into Georgian, to see how close the relationship is between the words for the meanings that Google has picked, and the original Georgian.

[Jubal]

I think some of these will be a bit odd, since I suspect this involves a lot of rendering of English common names in Georgian in the first place. Many of the names here bear a degree of resemblance to the English names of the relevant animals (e.g. the Georgian name of the European Snow Vole is მემინდვრია ევროპის თოვლის, or memindvria evrop'is tovlis, where tovlis = snow - that's the "I'm a European Snowman" on this list!) so I think what's been used are Georgian translations of those names rather than older traditional Georgian names for the specific smaller mammals if any indeed even exist; I'm not actually sure when e.g. distinctions between for example field, yellow-necked, and house mice started being made properly in English.

In general I think that Google is often simply wrong - it's probably lacking input when it comes to Georgian, and I think it's probably harder to work out Georgian words than some other languages because of their heavily agglutinative nature. Machvzgharba, the word for a porcupine, definitely doesn't translate to anything like "I'm getting upset", and I can't work out any similar words that it was getting at. It does actually have an interesting translation: machvi is a badger and zgharba a hedgehog, so it's a "badger hedgehog" roughly. A lot of these aren't super messed up, that said; I may be able to shed some more light on the ones that are in a few weeks' time...

[Ierne]

this is brilliantly funny, thanks for posting it I've been forced to use google translate for museum records that have no English version, and some very strange things happen to Norwegian too. Icelandic, bizzarely, comes out entirely understandable, but with all the words in the wrong order.
I have no idea what a many more pudding is, but i sincerely wish these were real names for animals.

im going to guess that 'the twilight is blind' might be some kind of bat?

crouching cluck and a slap in the forest sound like unusually vicious chickens, but that might be too much to hope for.

[Jubal]

I think "The Twilight Is Blind" is actually a mole - the bats are all the ones in the "Nightclub" section.

A slap in the forest is a northern birch mouse, for some reason!