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Last year there was a question in a foreign language on the trivia league LearnedLeague that had to be thrown out because some peoples' browsers ended up translating the question, making it much easier than anticipated for a subset of users, without them opting in or necessarily even being aware of it.



I remember this one! The question was:

“ Un molcajete y tejolote se usa comúnmente en los restaurantes mexicanos para preparar ¿qué plato popular de aguacate que se suele servir con totopos?”

The idea is that a monolingual English speaker might recognize enough words here to make a guess. Or that people might know Spanish. (I’m somewhere in between, my browser did not translate the question, and I got it right.)




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