Typical case of “garbage in, garbage out” (They translated Fir literally as “fir tree” in german)
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.
In what context is Fir a valid abbreviation for Friday in English? I feel like that’s the issue! Should be Fri.
That’s the garbage in part of the GIGO process.
Oh I see! I have been “whooshed”
typo, presumably
Fruit from the poisoned typo.
Feels more like a typo
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”
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.
I think, that’s the point of the whole post.
This was probably translated on a fir tree afternoon when they were already checked out for the weekend.
It was. And then the typo played telephone
It’s a typo positive
Good old Firday, all praise the almighty fir tree.
Shoutouts to a bunch of mobile games translating “play now” in spanish as “reproducir ahora” (translated literally as “to reproduce now”)
I feel like the only thing missing here is a starter pistol, and we have a new genre of porn.
EA Origin, or possibly whatever they had before it, in Finnish used to have a button for “firewood outdoors”
Ah ! TP-Link! Or, as I’ve always said, Toilet Paper Link.
O Tannentag, o Tannentag…
…Wie schön ist der darauffolgende Freitag…
De: TP-Verknüpfung Omada Steuerpanel En: TP-Link grandma there control panel
Translator: Why are you booing me? I’m right.
I agree, even though the translator in that case was probably just a bit of code
Chinaware does chinaware things.
