Top ten: When French translations go wrong
Sophie Inge - [email protected]
Published: 28 Oct, 2014 CET.
Updated: Tue 28 Oct 2014 15:07 CET
It's kind when the French translate menus and signs into English for the benefit of us Anglos, but the result is sometimes horribly wrong or inappropriate. Here are photos of the ten worst French translations.
Google Translate is great, but as some enterprising Frenchmen have learned the hard way, it can produce totally bizarre and confusing translations.
In this list we’ve collected together some of the funniest – and downright strangest – mistranslations from French to English.
They will make you laugh or leave you staring blankly at the sentence wondering just exactly what the heck 'clensliness' is.
Top ten: When French translations go wrong
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Google Translate is great, but as some enterprising Frenchmen have learned the hard way, it can produce totally bizarre and confusing translations.
In this list we’ve collected together some of the funniest – and downright strangest – mistranslations from French to English.
They will make you laugh or leave you staring blankly at the sentence wondering just exactly what the heck 'clensliness' is.
Top ten: When French translations go wrong
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