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Now is the time for all good people to come to the aid of the party
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Interesting. An artifact in Chrome's translate feature.

Here is some Russian text, posted by your Russian colleague:

сейчас настало время всем хорошим людям прийти на помощь партии
  1. Use Chrome's translate feature, available from the upper right "dot dot dot" menu and select English, so you can read their post.
  2. Quote their post as if you are responding to them.
  3. Start typing a response with any word that starts with capital W, such as Who, What, or Where.

    I see it auto-translate my text - in realtime - from a capital W to IN.

  4. Repeat steps 1 and 2 as a new post. Start typing "Yes".

    I see it auto-translate Yes into ANDes.
I discovered this on a different forum and am trying it here to ascertain that it is a browser issue, not a forum issue.
 
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DaveC426913 said:
Now is the time for all good people to come to the aid of the party
INhere
 
DaveC426913 said:
Now is the time for all good people to come to the aid of the party
ANDes
 
fresh_42 said:
Doesn't work with German.
Maybe not those exact words 'Who' and 'Yes', maybe some others. Dunno.
 
This is even weirder.

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turns to

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INhere has my sentence with the typo gone? Or the parentheses?
 
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