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Looks like Apple failed French

October 15, 2008 by Dr. Macenstein
Filed under: Humor, Mac Pro, MacBook, WTF

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According our good friend Chris over at the French Mac site macgeneration, Apple’s MacBook announcements were riddled with quite a few spelling/grammatical errors, the most notable being this one.

Apparently “parfaitement con” translates to “perfect idiot” in French. Whoops!

The page has since been changed to read “parfaitement conÃ§u”, or “perfectly designed”. Errors were also found on the Displays and MacBook Pro pages which changed their intended meanings quite a bit.

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14 Comments on Looks like Apple failed French

Jens on Wed, 15th Oct 2008 7:30 pm

there were some grammar, typo and layout mistakes on the german site but nothing spectacular like this one

- Jie - on Thu, 16th Oct 2008 3:54 am

Congrats on finding the “Ã§” key, not bad for a QWERTY-boy

Fred on Thu, 16th Oct 2008 11:44 am

He has a Mac–oh, pardon, MaÃ§–where the C-Cedille is as easy as Alt+C.

yojan on Thu, 16th Oct 2008 2:16 pm

fell right on the nose

Dannybuoy on Thu, 16th Oct 2008 2:33 pm

I thought con is the naughties word of them all.. cÂ£&t.. ooh la laaaaa

Tegan Ellis on Thu, 16th Oct 2008 2:46 pm

Wow, looks like someone might need to go back and take a few English, I mean French classes. That’s definitely going to be a blow to Apple’s sales in France and the surrounding areas. Did someone miss the spell check?
Now this isn’t a life or death situation. I mean no one cursed or defamed the name but it does make Apple appear ignorant. Not a good way to do promotions. Maybe next time around they will get it right!?

Dave R. on Thu, 16th Oct 2008 2:47 pm

@Dannybuoy: nope, there are much worse ones than that

One meaning of the word is a lady’s front bottom, but the word isn’t as rude as cÂ£&t, just as fanny or twat isn’t.

You’ll like this, though:
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/82/262083226_7529f61148.jpg

West on Thu, 16th Oct 2008 2:54 pm

I know one of the people personally responsible for French translation at Apple - she’s a meticulous person, so I am wondering what fell through the cracks here :S

Alan on Thu, 16th Oct 2008 3:36 pm

I love the bottom one on the macgeneration.com page. “New design. New functions. New technologies. Completely designed according to criteria that are yet to be specified.”

Lance on Thu, 16th Oct 2008 4:17 pm