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Ali, what's up

Words on my favorite Chinese shopping site

From time to time I buy stuff on AliExpress, mostly electronics. It
has such a huge amount of items available which amazes me every time.
Lots of quality stuff and lots of lesser quality stuff. Today, I
found that it has rather strange text in the placeholder for the
search box when the site is displayed in Dutch:

[Schermafbeelding-2022-05-05-om-16]As an aside, do you notice the
Categories on the left, where two categories contain an ampersand
that is properly rendered and one that is not?

The text means "women who are f*cking". This placeholder text is
really in the site source, it is not loaded in via xhr or something.
You'll also see it if you visit from a private tab or if you check
with curl.

$ curl -s  https://nl.aliexpress.com/ | rg -i vrouw
<form id="form-searchbar" class="searchbar-form" action="/wholesale" method="get" data-ishotwordsearch="true" data-actionurl="//nl.aliexpress.com/w/wholesale-neukende-vrouwen.html">
<input type="text" placeholder="neukende vrouwen" maxlength="50" autocomplete="off" value="" name="SearchText" class="search-key" id="search-key" />

Pressing 'Refresh' in your browser cycles the placeholder texts a few
times, but the first hit consistently gives me this placeholder text.
I also found that switching to the German site gives a similar
strange result, although not a literal translation:

[Schermafbeelding-2022-05-05-om-17]

Hoschen means panties, and ficken means, well...

If I switch the language of the site to English, there are no weird
suggestions, only suggestions that make some sense. Strange, right?
My pet theory is that it's some joke put in there by a translator. I
think for most available goods, the translation is automatically
generated, but I think for the general search bar and other such
places they might use a manual translation?

If you actually search for the term in the placeholder text, this is
the first item returned by AliExpress:

[Schermafbeelding-2022-05-05-om-20]

I'm not too sure what to make of all of this.

Published May 5, 2022By Michiel
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged aliexpress, translation

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