Google Translate & Argentine Spanish

[Redpossum]

We all know they sometimes don't play nice together. It was early, and I hadn't had my coffee yet. At the end of the first paragraph of this story in Pagina12 -

El discurso de Joe Biden sobre Ucrania: advertencias a Putin y una confusión entre iraníes y ucranianos | Habló ante las dos Cámaras del Congreso estadounidense

El presidente de Estados Unidos se refirió a la guerra entre Rusia y Ucrania, las sanciones y el papel de la OTAN. Un furcio: confundió iraníes con ucranianos. Críticas hacia Vladimir Putin.

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I ran across the word "furcios", and didn't recognize it. So I ran the story through Google translate, which translated the word as "furces", which I didn't recognize either, but I shrugged and kept going. But when the word occurred again in the header of section four of the story, I expelled orange juice from my nose. Not a pleasant experience; that stuff is far too acidic to be hydro-blasting one's sinuses with first thing in the morning.

 

[wineguy999]

We all know they sometimes don't play nice together.

wordreference.com comes in handy sometimes.

 

[Rich One]

We all know they sometimes don't play nice together. It was early, and I hadn't had my coffee yet. At the end of the first paragraph of this story in Pagina12 -

El discurso de Joe Biden sobre Ucrania: advertencias a Putin y una confusión entre iraníes y ucranianos | Habló ante las dos Cámaras del Congreso estadounidense

El presidente de Estados Unidos se refirió a la guerra entre Rusia y Ucrania, las sanciones y el papel de la OTAN. Un furcio: confundió iraníes con ucranianos. Críticas hacia Vladimir Putin.

www.pagina12.com.ar

I ran across the word "furcios", and didn't recognize it. So I ran the story through Google translate, which translated the word as "furces", which I didn't recognize either, but I shrugged and kept going. But when the word occurred again in the header of section four of the story, I expelled orange juice from my nose. Not a pleasant experience; that stuff is far too acidic to be hydro-blasting one's sinuses with first thing in the morning.

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All locals know what a furcio is..! in English a "Lapsus Linguae". Geography is not Biden's forté.

 

[tangobob]

According to Diccionario etimologico del lunfardo (Oscar Conde) it translates as a stutter.