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Re:A Localization Horror Story: It Could Happen to You by jdcryans on Thursday January 15, 2015 @12:10PM (#8893708)
> and me for French > The French guy actually translated "Garbage day" to something like "Shitty day"

So you translated it to "jour de merde"?

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Re:A Localization Horror Story: It Could Happen to You by eloisant on Thursday January 15, 2015 @01:35PM (#8894401)
That's the other way around, the guy who did the translation without context wrote "jour de merde", and I saved them from releasing that in their phone calendar app during my one-day job paid in cash.
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Re:A Localization Horror Story: It Could Happen to You by jdcryans on Thursday January 15, 2015 @03:26PM (#8895101)
Well you really... saved the day!
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Re:A Localization Horror Story: It Could Happen to You by mcphage on Thursday January 15, 2015 @12:12PM (#8893729)
The commenter wasn't the translator, they were the proof-reader:

> When I was in Japan I did proof reading for a Japanese feature phone.

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Re:A Localization Horror Story: It Could Happen to You by jdcryans on Thursday January 15, 2015 @12:14PM (#8893746)
Ah that makes more sense, thanks.
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