I would not say to bet everything on what the Google translator says. But I have seen forum members from China take 5 L's and give translations - it's here somewhere I just can't recall the member or the post.
To hedge the accuracy (or lack thereof) of the translator, I'm sticking to at least 1 pair of consonants and minimum vowels (if any) - that way if it's so far off that it's ludicrous I would still have a chip with 1 consecutive consonant.
But the main reason I give the translator consideration is because of who is registering within that segment - the Chinese.
I took a segment of 1000* chips that were available as of Friday translated into 1 word translations. Then checked their availability... as of right now 656* of those domains are registered.
*(subtract -60 domains from each list, some were registered previously and must have not been on the zone for whatever reason)
http://justpaste.it/p1st
HICHINA ZHICHENG TECHNOLOGY LTD.
HANGZHOU AIMING NETWORK CO.LTD
ENAME TECHNOLOGY CO. LTD.
These registrars all account for a large part of buying in this segment since Friday, until you get to the 17th when I posted the list and forum buyers are starting to clean them out.
I think the experience of
@mitok is very telling...
https://www.namepros.com/posts/5124822/
I have also been looking at 5L's with vowels and their translations - and for every 5 or 10 I like, there is 1 or 2 that have been registered by a Chinese buyer. That's what makes me give more credence to the translator... not that its 100% infallible, but that Chinese buyers are buying strong translations too.
*I haven't had time to go through all of the vowels yet, I started to and then got busy. I will post some Chinese registered 5L's with vowels with strong translations in the future as I see them.
Even if the translator is so far off that your friend is laughing at it, there may be Chinese buyers/sellers that will use the translation as a selling point, or some kind of extra criteria to make the 5L chip more rare and exclusive.
When you are talking about 11mil permutations you have to narrow the field down to more criteria than just non-aeiouv and beginning with cities.
After all, does non aeiouv really matter in the end? Of course not... It's just part of the narrative that can easilyt identify 'value' where financial haven is flocking to.