Lost in translation !

[clarfonthey@toot.cat]

@jfmezei god, painfully laughing at this one

[clarfonthey@toot.cat]

@jfmezei this feels like a "your fridge is running" joke

like, baby's on the table… better go catch it!

[sibrosan@mastodon.social]

@Black_Flag @jfmezei

How would that be relevant if "onboard" is not on the sign

[futurebird@sauropods.win]

@jfmezei

It's what's for dinner!

[renardboy@mastodon.social]

@jfmezei you mean you don't habitually put your baby on a chalkboard?

Personally, that's usually how I store mine.

[phosphenes@glasgow.social]

@futurebird @jfmezei

Yeah first thing I thought of was planked salmon.

[oranger@piaille.fr]

@jfmezei

[futurebird@sauropods.win]

@Phosphenes @jfmezei

Giving that minivan a wide berth in the parking lot when shopping with my little cousins.

[eskealler@mastodon.social]

@jfmezei where can I get one?

[earwigplanet@mastodon.social]

@jfmezei Something something Burt Ward.

[davidm_yeg@beige.party]

@jfmezei

Is Earth Day also Hire A Translator Day? It should be: a simple action that saves the environment and the children…

[loathsome_dongeater@toots.matapacos.dog]

@jfmezei that's it. i'm pulling the baby off the table.

[mkoek@mastodon.nl]

@jfmezei LOL. I was checking the reviews on Google for a restaurant in Paris and one review said “Hat of the leader”. Puzzled, I clicked to reveal the original review in French. It was “Chapeau le chef”.

[landelare@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@jfmezei Or it's targeting a very, very specific, neglected market segment

[cptodin@twoot.site]

@jfmezei besser als die Füße

[isocat@tiggi.es]

@jfmezei Yeah, and also:

[burnitdown@beige.party]

@Crystal_Fish_Caves @jfmezei more likely Anglophones who couldn't be bothered to hire a translator and thought they knew what they were doing. this happens with Ottawa municipal stuff all the time. our city is right next to Quebec, a whole province of French speaking people, and la Ville de Gatineau is just across the river, but hire someone to get French phrasing correct? nah, who would do that.

[74@mastodon.com.pl]

@jfmezei

@trouduction

[atkelar@meow.social]

@jfmezei I don't speak French but this seems a tad too literal?

[jfmezei@cosocial.ca]

@atkelar yep. Translated “board” as “blackboard” instead of expression “on board”. (Having boarded a vehicle).