>>>Most strange of them; SAP uses "bakim" word for change records what means "maintenance". That's so strange for users. In first glance they think about applications "maintenance" things (reindex, rebuild,fix things etc...) ... :)
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>>Translation is one thing where open source really shines - over the years I've got Firefox, LibreOffice, Thunderbird and a few other things in serbian version, and it's so obvious that they were translated manually. Comparing with pages coming from Microsoft, Google and a few others, one sees they're trying to apply machine translation as far as it takes them, and the results are all across the spectrum between disaster and insult.
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>I did not mean machine translations. Probably they just get text files without using application. That's impossible use machine translations with turkish.
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>Machine translators (included Google and Microsoft's) terrible and horrible with turkish. Maybe it's about because of turkish is a difficult language or turkish is an unpopular language.

No, it's because of the polisemy of English, i.e. one word having multiple meanings, combined with very little morphology - no cases, declensions, conjugations to speak of. So the same phrase can mean very different things, depending on a comma, or presence of definite, indefinite or no article. Over the years I've gathered a long list of things which can be understood in different ways, and another one where the translation forth and back can screw the original so even its mom wouldn't recognize it.