Bon appetit

Google Translate is a boon for translating Japanese pages into English. However, of course, there are limits to what a machine can do.

I translated a page from a hotel. The Japanese read: (...) キャンセル扱いとさせていただきます - 'we will cancel the service'. 'sasete itadakimasu' is a very polite way to say 'we will do (something)'.

As you may know 'itadakimasu', on its own, is also an expression that Japanese people use when they start to eat. Just before eating the first bite, it's common to say 'itadakimasu!', which means something like 'thanks for the food', or 'bon appetit', or 'well, I'm going to start!'

So Google Translate translated this sentence as 'Bon appetit we will be cancelled'. I was amused. ^_^