Post #1098824
2026-04-12 17:57 UTC
aah, the reason why the in-app kindle purchase flow in german has a button labeled "Bitte lesen" (which translates to "Please read") for opening the purchased ebook is that someone mistranslated "Read now" as if it was meant in imperative form?
My favorite out-of-context translation fail was some internal status page in Chrome years ago, which described sandboxing status as (translated back to English) "you have trained sufficiently".
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@jann@infosec.exchange 2026-04-12 18:04
I wonder how many tech workers who speak English as a second language actually dogfood their company's stuff in their native language. I have most stuff on my devices configured to have english UI (except stuff like public transport apps which are probably primarily developed with german UI)
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@http@infosec.exchange 2026-04-17 17:06
@jann@infosec.exchange My favorite translation fail was the Windows95 button in the dial-up configuration to connect to the Internet. In English, there was a button "Unsave password" to delete your saved password. In German Win95, they translated that button to "Unsicheres Passwort" (which means 'insecure password'). I'm sure many German speaking people clicked that button.