Typical case of “garbage in, garbage out” (They translated Fir literally as “fir tree” in german)
Good old Firday, all praise the almighty fir tree.
Ah ! TP-Link! Or, as I’ve always said, Toilet Paper Link.
Chinaware does chinaware things.
There’s also the infamous gender of “Taucher”, for the non-germans: in German forms, the “diverse” gender is written “divers”, which was auto-translated to “Taucher”, which is a guy in a diving suit.
Shoutouts to a bunch of mobile games translating “play now” in spanish as “reproducir ahora” (translated literally as “to reproduce now”)
I feel like the only thing missing here is a starter pistol, and we have a new genre of porn.
O Tannentag, o Tannentag…
…Wie schön ist der darauffolgende Freitag…
EA Origin, or possibly whatever they had before it, in Finnish used to have a button for “firewood outdoors”
De: TP-Verknüpfung Omada Steuerpanel En: TP-Link grandma there control panel
In what context is Fir a valid abbreviation for Friday in English? I feel like that’s the issue! Should be Fri.
typo, presumably
Fruit from the poisoned typo.
That’s the garbage in part of the GIGO process.
Oh I see! I have been “whooshed”
Feels more like a typo
A typo that was translated in kind.
In English it says [Fir], which obviously is a typo, but in German it was translated to [Tanne] which means “fir tree”.
While the English version is close to the real thing ([Fr]) and thus could slip through if you are careful, there is no way any decent translator wouldn’t ask for confirmation when they are translating “Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fir tree, Sat”
This was probably translated on a fir tree afternoon when they were already checked out for the weekend.
The “translator” was probably just some hapless programmer who fed it to ChatGPT, and does not speak a word of German nor gets paid enough to check.
I think, that’s the point of the whole post.
It’s a typo positive
It was. And then the typo played telephone
