Post #519138

2026-03-03 14:16 UTC

Stupid Microsoft translation for today: T-SQL function "sin" (aka sinus) translated to German as "SÜNDE" (sin, the religious thing)

Replies (15)

@twinkle@sweet.succubi.services 2026-03-03 19:06

@Johann150 trig is the source of all evil, yes

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@Phalzu@kolektiva.social 2026-03-03 15:24

@Johann150 Auto-translator going brr.

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@30p87@chaos.social 2026-03-03 15:33

@Johann150 Also:

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@hannah@hai.z0ne.social 2026-03-03 14:22

@Johann150@genau.qwertqwefsday.eu btw it's sine, sinus is the nose membrane that gets infected when you have a cold

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@max@peering.social 2026-03-03 15:41

@Johann150 Is it just web or actually in any tool?

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@WLBORg@hachyderm.io 2026-03-03 17:20

@Johann150 Yesterday, we had the Google Play Comments “Maut” and “Darm”. Showing the originals revealed “toll” and “gut”.

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@murphy@troet.cafe 2026-03-03 14:42

@Johann150 I believe that's why you absolutely need https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/msdn-delocalizer/ 😜

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@cceckman@hachyderm.io 2026-03-03 14:41

@Johann150 sin(pi) = gluttony?

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@iris@neuromatch.social 2026-03-03 16:47

@Johann150 ... is sinus another accepted form of sine function? Because I know sinus as the cavity in the skull where the snot is kept. This is another layer of amusing in the context of the thread.

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@hakona@im.alstadheim.no 2026-03-03 21:20

@Johann150 Yay! I love localised programming languages! Added benefit is that searching the web for error-messages becomes impossible.

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@Johann150@genau.qwertqwefsday.eu 2026-03-03 14:20

Oh wait there's even more, some of them even come with "helpful" disambiguations "abs" -> "ABS (Antiblockiersystem)" "Asin" -> "ASIN (Amazon-Standard-Identifikationsnummer)" "power" -> "Energie" "floor" -> "Boden"

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@lucasmz@wetdry.world 2026-03-04 10:20

@Johann150 developer translations?

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@perry@mk.absturztau.be 2026-03-03 14:50

@Johann150@genau.qwertqwefsday.eu microslop at it again

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@mike@social.mikesweb.site 2026-03-04 21:41

@Johann150 ah, the same is true for Hungarian, they translated it to BŰN, which is also the religious kind of sin

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@lystopad@app.wafrn.net 2026-03-06 23:05

i wonder if they still translate RAM as 🐏

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