Machine Translation

July 20. 2004 at 16:50
Posted by Fraser Stephens
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The MSF medical and logistics catalogues are written in french and translated into english. The original french appears on the right hand side of each page, so it is possible to work out the occasional interesting literal translation. In the vehicles section, I can see that our landcruisers come with these wonderful features:
  • Ring of front towing
  • Put back front head
  • 3 gates
  • Filter with dry air & snorkel & witness of filling
  • Handle passenger before 2 pts
and even an avoid breeze laminated clearly. Fortunately the medical catalogues appears to have benefited from a human proofreader!

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Snorkel may not be a misprint. I used to have a mini that filled with water when it rained. On a nother wet note, Marcus has been rallying the troops for another MvSvB. Am in.
#1 Paul on 2004-07-31 11:34
In a similar vein, we saw some great menu translations when we were in Italy: 'scampi alla Catalana' became "he escapes to the Catalan", whilst 'tartufo gelato' became "frozen hypocrite". Amused? You bet!
#2 Mad (Homepage) on 2004-07-29 12:50
I want to see a picture of you with the snorkel and witness in the next entry.....
#3 Rach on 2004-07-23 13:31
But what do you get 2 pts for, to handle you passenger before?
#4 Caz on 2004-07-21 22:23

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