Your Universal Remote Control Center
RemoteCentral.com
Intermission Forum - View Post
Up level
Up level
The following page was printed from RemoteCentral.com:

Login:
Pass:
 
 

Original thread:
Post 6 made on Sunday September 27, 2009 at 09:44
Anthony
Ultimate Member
Joined:
Posts:
May 2001
28,874
That is fun, but it proves an important thing, unless you understand the two languages and using it to save some time (after all probably something like 80% will be usable) yu should not translate on line anything important. Even small mistakes can become important and help turn something around (it can also make you look like a fool.)

several years ago a co-worker that worked in the US moved here, his name was Chew and responding to a guy (who is francophone) decided since he was in Canada now he would respond in French. He wrote the e-mail, translated and then asked someone for a confirmation on the translation. The funny thing was that the translator saw "chew" and translated it to mastication and tried to make the sentence make sense with that.
...


Hosting Services by ipHouse