The Wilder Shores of Machine Translation: "the Field of Youth Creationism Doritos Taha"

I never use Facebook's built-in translation function unless friends are posting in a language I don't know, but sometimes it seems to translate automatically, not always with the best results:
The second part almost approaches comprehensibility, but "Joey scene appears in the field of youth creationism doritos taha masjid yusuf aga time" is a sublime victory for computer translation running off the rails.

The photo accompanying it is this:

Now let's look at what the caption really says: "Cairo: aerial view of Bab al-Khalq Square; in the midst of it is the Mosque of Yusuf Agha, the Governorate Building, and the Dar al-Kutub (National Library), and the Islamic Museum. At the top of the picture appears Abdeen Palace and the area surrounding it . . . Picture from the thirties of the last century."

It leaps the rails at the beginning, when "aerial view" becomes "Joey scene," though the word for aerial (jawiyy) has clearly been read as "Joey." The square in question, Bab al-Khalq, can be translated as "Gate of the People," or the "Masses," but Khalq can also mean "creation," so I guess that explains "creationism." I don't know where "youth" came from. Any ideas? But the real genius was turning one word in Arabic, يتوسطه, into two, "doritos taha." If you ignore the actual voweling, you might come up with "itostaha," quite wrongly, but the "do-" is nowhere to be found.

More Adventures in Getting Arabic Wrong

I've previously noted that one should Always Check with Someone Who Knows Arabic Before Posting to the Internet or getting a Tattoo.

It's even more embarrassing to find glaring errors in  a movie trailer. The Language Log linguistics blog notes that the trailer for the forthcoming science fiction film Arrival, a film which reportedly focuses in large part on alien linguistics, apparently is somewhat challenged by a major terrestrial language:

Note the text at the upper left of the screen reads:

ة ل ج ا ع 　 ر ا ب خ أ ;

Similarly, the text on the bottom right says:

ر ش ا ب م ل ا   ث ب ل ا

Yes, someone has failed to realize that Arabic is 1) written from right to left,  and 2) the letters are supposed to be connected.

The first is supposed to read أخبارعاجلة , urgent news or breaking news.  The second is البث المباشر , live broadcast.

Longtime readers may recall something similar from the London Olympics four years ago: "Obligatory Olympics Arabic Note: Marhaba bikum fi London, Sort of":

One would think with all the online translation tools this wouldn't keep happening.

In other Arabic news: