MacBook is lost in translation

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

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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

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

Technically

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

edit

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I dont see how**

"ne" and "pas"

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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."

Language Fail! How on earth

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Language Fail!

How on earth did that one get through?

Probably a bored web

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Probably a bored web developer who just deleted the last two letters of the word "conçu" (Parfaitement conçu = Perfectly designed).

By the way, 9 to 5 mac's translation of not cool is wrong.

oh ffs people!!!  

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oh ffs people!!!

 

perfectly funny....

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perfectly funny....

That's hilarious, even

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That's hilarious, even apple's very own translator (in dashboard) translates it as: "perfectly stupid" LOL! I can't believe that one got through.

may be worse than stupid

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I think that "con" is actually a bit more vulgar than "stupid". You can translate "stupid" as "stupide", but "con" can be used to refer to a woman's anatomy in a vulgar way. Think "cu#t".

You're right "con" is a bit

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You're right "con" is a bit vulgar, but it's not used to refer a woman's anatomy.
It was quite funny to see that on apple website, I don't believe no one saw it before went online.

Happens all the time at the

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Happens all the time at the Russian website. We're all having laughs as soon as Apple rolls out new pages.

yes it is

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shlompsen is right. It means c***, but is now more used as "stupid."