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Comment by patrickgzill | Hacker News Reader

Do you as an English-only speaker, really want to marry and have kids with a French-only speaking woman when you don't even know how to say "you are cute" in French?

So the premise seems a little dumb.

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When I first met the German woman who is now my wife, she could barely speak a coherent English sentence, but we managed. Two weeks later we were a couple, a year later we were married. That was 7 years ago this month.

I still don't know how to say "You are cute" in German.

Sheesh, try google!

(http://www.google.com/search?q=translate+you+are+cute+into+g...)

There's also Translated Search:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&tbo=1&tbs=clir:1&...

Thanks guys, I'm aware of my options. :P

I wonder if there's been a noticeable spike in search terms related to that ad, e.g. people searching for how to say "you are cute" in French.

Not noticeable enough to show up on Trends:

http://www.google.com/trends/hottrends?sa=X

Though everything else related to the Superbowl has managed to show up. People continue to be enamored of The Who, and the Call Barney Stinson guy seems to have gotten his money's worth.

The result of this translation is quite a bit too formal. "Du bist süß" is less formal.

I'm assuming the searches happened over a longer period of time than those 52 seconds.

"But love is blind and lovers cannot see."

- Shakespeare's The Merchant Of Venice

And of course, the ad shows the limitations of Google Translate: "you are cute" was translated to "you are a cute [man]", which would be something really weird to say to a girl... Since there is no gender information in the English original, it wasn't that easy to figure out that the cute person is female... although most humans would have known.

Depends on how cute she is...

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