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Thread poster: Rad Graban (X)
Rad Graban (X)
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Sep 12, 2009

Just to share.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/18/20090911/tod-french-panic-as-plane-alert-lost-in-7f81b96.html
 
Viktoria Gimbe
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Canada
Local time: 18:11
English to French
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Not really a translation issue Sep 13, 2009

Someone sent me a link to one of the articles for this news item today. The title of the article contained the phrase 'translation mistake', but I don't see the mistake here. The problem was with the alert message system, not with the translation.

Although I do believe that many companies who use translation only because they are required to don't take care for the translation to actually serve its purpose. That really is a shame, and this gaffe is an excellent illustration of it.
 


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