OT: Bad translations

[Simen Kjærås]

On Wednesday, 26 September 2018 at 02:12:07 UTC, Ali Çehreli 
wrote:
> On 09/24/2018 08:17 AM, 0xEAB wrote:
>
> > - Non-idiomatic translations of tech terms [2]
>
> This is something I had heard from a Digital Research 
> programmer in early 90s:
>
> English message was something like "No memory left" and the 
> German translation was "No memory on the left hand side" :)

My ex-girlfriend tried to learn SQL from a book that had gotten a 
prize for its use of Norwegian. As a result, every single concept 
used a different name from what everybody else uses, and while it 
may be possible to learn som SQL from this, it made googling an 
absolute nightmare. Just imagine a whole book saying CHOOSE for 
SELECT, IF for WHERE, and USING instead of FROM - only worse, 
since it's a different language. It even used SQL pseudo-code 
with these made-up names, and showed how to translate it to 
proper SQL as more of an afterthought.

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   Simen