Mastodawn

god damn it, i've gone viral again. fuck

sorry, I’ve gone *woolly*. you simpleton. you absolute station wagon /ref

GAUUGH

May Likes Toronto Feb 25

@GroupNebula563 you're just over here tooting your own horn.

@mayintoronto good one /gen

derptron Feb 25

@GroupNebula563 antibodies will respond soon enough.

This is probably the thanks you get for adding alt text.

edit: shortly after this someone grave dug one of mine and now its getting boosted again :p

@crazyeddie that is true! speaking of which, in my newfound fame I’d like to shout out @alttexthalloffame, go give them a follow! :)

Alt Text Hall of Fame Feb 25

@GroupNebula563 Thank you so much!

And congratulations/sorry this happened to you!

@crazyeddie

@alttexthalloffame @crazyeddie no, it’s fine, apparently it’s a good post :P

…and no problem! :)

Darwin Woodka Feb 25

@GroupNebula563

that happens when you post this one. it's a good sign.

@GroupNebula563 my retirement plan 😭

FandaSin Feb 25

@GroupNebula563

The sooner the better!😈

grob (teeth era) 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️Feb 25

@GroupNebula563 describes me better than I'd like

@GroupNebula563 in case of any #AI-powered system, I suspect we won't need to be that patient at all to see it fail.

CaohuaK ❄️Feb 25

@GroupNebula563 I often see weird machine translations tbh, but this one doesn't look too bad.

Frost, wolf of winter 🐺🎄

Feb 25

@caohuak @GroupNebula563 I think this one is funny because "the failure of the system" sounds like, specifically, "the end of capitalism"

it sounds like some kind of vaguely communist/leftist jargon thing

without that context, it'd be much closer to the intended meaning, hehe (presumably more like "please wait for the system's failure to be resolved")

Marion Grau Feb 25

@GroupNebula563
#lostintranslation vibes

@GroupNebula563 DeepL gives a correct translation: “The Foreign Nationals Working in China Permit System is currently experiencing technical difficulties. Please be patient.”

@librarianbe I translated it myself in the alt text :P

@GroupNebula563 Yes, of course. What I meant to say is that if DeepL translates it correctly, how can it be mistranslated on the placard? I suppose they used a translation machine.

@librarianbe this image has been around for a good while, probably since before deepl became a thing. i presume it’s a human translator (and/or just some person on their team who could vaguely speak English and had a phrasebook lying around :P)

@GroupNebula563 That could explain it.

@librarianbe to be fair, as someone who is an expert on shanzhai stuff, I’ve seen far worse translations. the only mistake they *really* made here (besides simplifying the English version a bit) is using “for” in the “due to” sense instead of a more fitting word/phrase

@GroupNebula563 True!

abadidea Feb 26

@librarianbe @GroupNebula563 aside from the image being at least several years old, I think it’s hand translated. Using “for” to mean “due to” is a very “I know how to say biblioteca” mistake, and they made a judgment call to omit an entire clause because it’s not strictly necessary and they weren’t sure how to say it right.

Patrick Vanhoucke Feb 26

@0xabad1dea @GroupNebula563 Now I had to look up what a “I know how to say biblioteca” mistake is. 😅

abadidea Feb 26

@librarianbe @GroupNebula563 ah, sorry, it’s a very American example — our Spanish classes aren’t very useful, effective or deep and it’s a stereotype that the only thing anyone remembers how to say is “where is the library?”

Patrick Vanhoucke Feb 26

@0xabad1dea @GroupNebula563 I have been learning Spanish in Brussels (Belgium) for 10 years. The language of instruction has been Spanish from the very first lesson. And that pays off, because we never 'translate'. Another language of instruction would not have been possible, because the classes are very international.