Google Korea has offered something really special for this year’s offering on this very special date:
Google 사투리 번역을 소개합니다
Introducing the New Google Dialect Translation Service
If you read Korean, check out the hilarious webpage showing examples of translations between various Korean dialects, how to attach dialect “modes” for translation of dialects in Google Talk and an explanation of how Gmail will provide one click translations of those dialect filled emails into standard Korean.
I think the idea would be just as hilarious if Google Norway (as well as countless other localized Google sites in countries where there is a high degree of dialect variation) were to try it.
I still can’t belive I was totally fooled by Google Korea even though I did open the web site to see their hoax.
I’ve just blogged about this hilarious event at my blog.