MacBook is lost in translation

Wed, 10/15/2008 - 3:35am — Jonny Evans

French website MacGeneration spotted this particular language foul-up on the Apple site last night...Apple's French website apparently made a few errors online last night, here it describes its new Mac as "Parfaitement Con", which any translation engine can tell you means something like, "perfectly bloody stupid". Pas cool, huh?

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Your translation of "not

Wed, 10/15/2008 - 4:29am — 9to5Mac Noob (not verified)

Your translation of "not cool" in french is wrong. The right one is just "Pas cool". We use the same word as in english.

wouldn't not cool, be "ne

Wed, 10/15/2008 - 9:34am — waiting for my Pro, inflight from Shanghai! (not verified)

wouldn't not cool, be "ne cool pas" ? -- sorry I know this is not really relevant, just curious.

Technically

Wed, 10/15/2008 - 10:41am — 9to5Mac Noob (not verified)

well, technically, it would be "ce n'est pas cool" ;D
i how he was correcting it though, they both look the same.

edit

Wed, 10/15/2008 - 10:43am — 9to5Mac Noob (not verified)

I dont see how**

"ne" and "pas"

Thu, 10/16/2008 - 7:15pm — twelve (not verified)

sometimes its hard to tell when to use "ne" and"pas". an easy way to remember it is its mostly just with negative verbs. when using a negative verb, write "ne [insert verb] pas". for example, to negate the verb "eat," you would say "ne mange pas". for an adjective, it's just "pas [adj]". "Ce n'est pas cool." The verb here is etre. "Ce N'EST PAS cool."