Re: Kernel-Messages translation (fwd)

Horst von Brand (vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl)
Wed, 18 Jun 1997 11:20:28 -0400

I particularly remember the "translation" commited on the RT AIX version we
had here, on the menu for test procedures it said "Unidad coma flotante
comprobacion", which (roughly mangled the same way in English) translates
back into "Floating comma checkout unit". Utterly uninteligible unless you
are able to guess at the original... but they got the fact that in Spanish
you use a decimal comma (not point) right ;-). Mercyfully they only
translated the first screenfull :-)

Boy, was that machine fun.

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