Recently, Pew Research Center got some surprising feedback to one of their surveys:

While we get a wide range of feedback on our surveys, we were surprised by a comment we received on an online survey in 2024: “You misspelled YES with FORKS numerous times.”

Forks, that would certainly be surprising. It seems a Google Translate issue combined with other bugginess, and that caused some folks to be presented with some surreal survey answers.

Thanks to friend-of-the-site Adam E for alerting me to this ridiculousness.

Update (April 5, 2025): There’s at least a bit of explanation for why Google Translate turns “Yes” into “forks”. Thanks to reader John M. for the link.