I love mistranslations. If this article whets your appetite, read the opening of Bill Bryson's Mother Tongue (excellent read for Language students) for some blindingly good ones. This article touches on some ideas that you could link to World Englishes (cultural issues in language choices) and Language Change/Technology. Speech recognition technology's one of the most interesting areas in current synchronic language change. Its implications are worth exploring e.g homophones, punctuation, handwriting, children's language development etc.
As an aside, look at the clickbait headline and maybe do a study of how these work on different sites. Bristol Post is a particular culprit on my Facebook news feed recently.
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