@dan Whoever wrote that speaks British English and knows how the present perfect tense works. An American system would use the past simple, it rang

@dan - If only you had Werner Herzog for text-to-speach

@dan @jalefkowit “I am a new tie wearingk”

@dan but for whom has it rung?

@dan I would say exactly that literally translated in German. Fascinating.

@dan I made the mistake of calling our doorbell "front door" so now it tells us "someone is at the front door door bell" yours is much funnier.

@dan "Ask not for whom the doorbell rings, it just has"

@dan
I ride BMW motos. I get it.

@dan Do not ask for whom the door bell rings, for it is you.

@dan Love that british = german.

@dan
Sounds like it's a direct translation from German.
"Someone's ringing the doorbell" translates to "Es klingelt". Literally that means "it's ringing."
So if it happened a while ago, that would then become "Es hat geklingelt": "it has rung"
So yeah... Quite likely a bunch of IT nerds who decided to Google translate their app 😁

@dan @timixretroplays I’m imagining this in Werner Herzog’s voice

@dan Which model is this? I've been looking for my grandparents who can't make it to the door in the normally expected amount of time anymore

@dan “Successfully connected to internet.”

@dan Whereas a British doorbell would go: “It certainly gave the impression that the doorbell rang. I shall endeavour to ascertain who that could be at this time of night.”

@dan "You rang?"
Lurch, Addams Family

@dan DÏNG DÖNG