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Re:Games with Famous Bad Translations into Japanese by elygre on Monday November 11, 2019 @04:56AM (#21503425)
Ah, nice! I guess all languages have legions of these. In Norway, dell sold computers with “brannkabel”, or “burn cable” [1].

[1] IEEE 1394 — FireWire.

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Re:Games with Famous Bad Translations into Japanese by toyg on Monday November 11, 2019 @06:11AM (#21503816)
Considering the eventual hackability of Firewire, maybe the translation was prescient... you’re gonna get burnt by that cable!
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Re:Games with Famous Bad Translations into Japanese by ejolto on Monday November 11, 2019 @07:27AM (#21504262)
That makes no sense in context of Norwegian as "get burnt by" is an English idiom.

Closest Norwegian equivalent to getting burnt I can think of is "å få lang nese" which translates into "to get a long nose", e.g. you get a long nose when someone tricks you. So in that case the cable should be called IEEE 1394 — LongNose.

Translation is difficult..

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Re:Games with Famous Bad Translations into Japanese by jimnotgym on Monday November 11, 2019 @08:36AM (#21504701)
Would it be normal to not translate these into languages that share the Latin alphabet at least?
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