lost in translation

May 24, 2008

Those of us who understand English and French, or Chinese and French, should appreciate the following traduction.

Fromage Salee

While this is clearly a pack of peanuts (as stated in both Chinese and English), the French translation somehow pegs it as bag of salted cheese. Neither of the two ingredients (cheese or salt) is present in the ingredients list. Furthermore, the French gramma here is just abysmal, as “fromage” is a masculine word and therefore the accent should have been on the first “e” in “salé”.

Wow. Just… wow.

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