In my defense I can say:
Do not make sense to say "equipamento" in brazilian portuguese because what is "equipamento"? any machine, but we are talking about truck, so the correct translation is "truck", a specific machine
what everyone has to keep in mind, including SCS Team, is that many words in English when they are translated almost in the same way as they are written, do not make sense or have a totally different translation/meaning into the other language, in Brazilian Portuguese is no different.
There are much, much worse cases. For example, you are watching a movie on Netflix and they (tried to ) 'translate' in the caption "excited" by 'excitado' conversations between employees (I had to correct it in Google Translator itself) in Brazilian Portuguese, which for us has a 100% sexual connotation. "Excited" word in corrected translation from english to pt-br is just "animado, empolgado". (two Brazilian Portuguese words that Google Translator doesn't do correctly in inversion).
well,
False Cognato... they can be understood as words written in a similar way in different countries but which have different meanings. Often, because they are derived from the same ancestral languages (such as Latin, for example), they have spellings and even similar sounds ... this because there are still
idioms , I mean
Idiomatic expressions (another thing that I had to correct in Google Translator). it seems that only 1% of the population has learned this, a sign that studies are terrible because I learned this when I was a child, a looooong time ago.
Wrong translations worry me because Google Translator is making them as standard translations. It scares me a lot because Google itself translates "excited" by 'excited' from English to Brazilian Portuguese, but the real meaning of the word is totally different. And there are several words that this happens.
Imagine you at a work lecture in Brazil, as brazilian, and hear from the speaker that "Eu estou muito excitado por estar aqui com vocês", in english it would be like "I am very horny to be he with you". So, everyone is going to undress. XDDD. This is a disservice that Google Translator is doing for the world.
Unfortunately, with pain in my heart, I come to see that many of us are learning to become more ignorant about False Cognato.
The same is the word "Status".
Does NOT exist 'Status' word in Brazilian Portuguese but "Situação" exists, so, why many games and software insist to use "status"?