Looks like Apple failed French
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!
![](https://i0.wp.com/macenstein.com/images/2008/french_macbook_mistake2.jpg?ssl=1)
The page has since been changed to read “parfaitement conçu”, or “perfectly designed”. Errors were also found on the Displays and MacBook Pro pages which changed their intended meanings quite a bit.
there were some grammar, typo and layout mistakes on the german site but nothing spectacular like this one
Congrats on finding the “ç” key, not bad for a QWERTY-boy 😀
He has a Mac–oh, pardon, Maç–where the C-Cedille is as easy as Alt+C.
fell right on the nose
I thought con is the naughties word of them all.. c£&t.. ooh la laaaaa
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!?
@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 c£&t, just as fanny or twat isn’t.
You’ll like this, though:
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/82/262083226_7529f61148.jpg
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
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.”
Doesn’t it actually mean ‘perfectly c*nt’?
Ahh its just French, so what!
Jiff
http://www.privacy-tools.at.tc
Ce ne pas bon!
I can hear Stevie now, “Off with their heads!”
Hi. I’m a PC. And I’m a Perfect Idiot 🙂