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

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[–] 75 points 2 years 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.

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  • [–] 44 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 69 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    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"

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  • [–] 24 points 2 years ago

    Good old Firday, all praise the almighty fir tree.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago*

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

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago

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

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    O Tannentag, o Tannentag...

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

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

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  • [–] -5 points 2 years ago

    Chinaware does chinaware things.

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