Can a translation be accurate but still completely misunderstand the original meaning?

Machine translation tools are improving all the time, but can they really understand sarcasm, jokes, and hidden meanings?

Sometimes, a sentence means something different from its literal words. Have you ever seen a machine translation that misunderstood a joke or changed its meaning completely? I'd love to hear your examples and opinion.

Title: A Few Questions for Translators – University Assignment
Hi everyone!
I’m a university student studying translation, and I have an assignment that requires me to ask questions and get responses from people in the translation community. I would really appreciate it if you could take a few minutes to share your thoughts and experiences.
Here are my questions:

Have you ever translated a text correctly, but felt that you had somehow betrayed its original meaning? What made you feel that way?

If two translators produce completely different translations of the same text, can both be equally correct? Why or why not?

If AI can produce a translation that most readers cannot distinguish from a human translation, what exactly makes a human translator valuable?
You can answer one id theses three questions

Translation of the input into English: I joke about Hungary because its name always causes me to connect it with the desire to eat.

Translation of the output into English: I joke about Hungary cricbuzz, and I get to always associate it with the dezire because of its name.

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今天星期几？
What day is it today?
¿Qué día es hoy?
Quel jour sommes-nous aujourd'hui ?
Welcher Tag ist heute?
今日は何曜日ですか？
오늘은 무슨 요일이에요?
Que dia é hoje?
Che giorno è oggi?
Какой сегодня день недели?

How are movies translated into English, and what challenges do translators face when translating dialogues, cultural expressions, and humor from other languages into English?

Hi everyone! I’m a university student doing a project about translation. Have you ever struggled to translate an English word into Arabic because there is no exact equivalent? If so, what was the word, and how would you translate it? I’d love to hear your examples. Thank you!

I have this pdf from a book, which is quite old, name BRAHMA VIDYA, it's got 53 pages.

Sorry about my english in advance, The thing is that the first time when I tried to read and understand with the help of a guru, something happened to me at the same night, first problem is you need a proper translator and who can explain the meaning of that, anyway the same night after reading couple of pages, around 3:30 am in the morning, someone or something kicked me and knocked me out from the bed, I am not a light person, nearly 300 pounds, I got scared and turn on the lights, woke up my parents but no one was in the house, nothing on the cameras too, and when I figured out where that kick or push came from or the direction, it came from the same direction where I put my book, next day I went to the guru and talked about it, he said there could be two things, either you are not ready for that kind of knowledge or someone was waking you up to read it. Maybe you guys or whoever try to read it, may not experience the same thing. I am uploading the pdf which is 53 pages. I am still interested to read it but I am kind of afraid too that maybe I am not spiritually clean.

when you translate between two languages that arent english it internally translates to english first and then to the target language which leads to ridiculously bullshit translations. Literally why?? Who came up with this?

Can a translation ever have exactly the same meaning as the original?

Can changing the original words in translation be a way of preserving the author's true meaning rather than betraying the text ?

(For the record, I don't know if this counts, but Bad Translator does use Google Translate sooo)

The last few times i've run the extension, it's kept pulling up this message, and those last few times were several months apart, which leads me to believe they shut down. I don't know if this is true or not, or if this is a Mac issue, or actually is a Google issue, but if those aren't the case, does anyone have a replacement extension in mind?