Letters: automatic french translations can be so funny
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CONNEXION READERS SHARE THEIR EXPERIENCES OF ABSURD MISTRANSLATIONS To the Editor, I recently used the English translated version of the French tax return. I was surprised to see my name was
given as ‘Fart Bright’. I was a little annoyed until I realised it was the translation programme that had used the verb péter. Peter Bright, by email Read more: Online translation tools:
Funny results between French and English To the Editor, Peter Bright's amusement at being renamed "Fart Bright" by an automatic translation programme reminded me of many other
such howlers. Restaurant menus provide some great examples, such as the puzzling "sprocket washer salad," which turned out to include the French dry sausage rosette. Place names
are another danger area. My wife and I live in Grasse, which we are now used to seeing referred to as "Fatty". Worse, though, for the inhabitants of Buzet-sur-Baïsse in the
Lot-et-Garonne, a village we have seen translated on an estate agent's website as "Buzet on F*cks" ! Dr Martin Hum, Alpes-Maritimes Have you encountered any translation
howlers in France? Share them with us at [email protected]
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