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Typical case of "garbage in, garbage out" (They translated Fir literally as "fir tree" in german)

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[-] [email protected] 72 points 10 months ago

There's also the infamous gender of "Taucher", for the non-germans: in German forms, the "diverse" gender is written "divers", which was auto-translated to "Taucher", which is a guy in a diving suit.

[-] [email protected] 45 points 10 months ago

In what context is Fir a valid abbreviation for Friday in English? I feel like that’s the issue! Should be Fri.

[-] [email protected] 60 points 10 months ago

That's the garbage in part of the GIGO process.

[-] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago

Oh I see! I have been “whooshed”

[-] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago
[-] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Fruit from the poisoned typo.

[-] [email protected] 25 points 10 months ago
[-] [email protected] 66 points 10 months ago

A typo that was translated in kind.

In English it says [Fir], which obviously is a typo, but in German it was translated to [Tanne] which means "fir tree".

While the English version is close to the real thing ([Fr]) and thus could slip through if you are careful, there is no way any decent translator wouldn't ask for confirmation when they are translating "Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fir tree, Sat"

[-] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The "translator" was probably just some hapless programmer who fed it to ChatGPT, and does not speak a word of German nor gets paid enough to check.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago

I think, that's the point of the whole post.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

This was probably translated on a fir tree afternoon when they were already checked out for the weekend.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago

It was. And then the typo played telephone

[-] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

It's a typo positive

[-] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago

Good old Firday, all praise the almighty fir tree.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago

Shoutouts to a bunch of mobile games translating "play now" in spanish as "reproducir ahora" (translated literally as "to reproduce now")

[-] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

I feel like the only thing missing here is a starter pistol, and we have a new genre of porn.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

EA Origin, or possibly whatever they had before it, in Finnish used to have a button for "firewood outdoors"

[-] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

Ah ! TP-Link! Or, as I've always said, Toilet Paper Link.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

O Tannentag, o Tannentag...

[-] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

...Wie schön ist der darauffolgende Freitag...

[-] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

De: TP-Verknüpfung Omada Steuerpanel En: TP-Link grandma there control panel

[-] [email protected] -5 points 10 months ago

Chinaware does chinaware things.

this post was submitted on 30 Aug 2023
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