I enjoy /r/trouduction, a subreddit where French speakers post bad translations. I thought I'd share a few, with explanations in English. I'm not completely fluent, so méfiez-vous. 🧵
In this one, "BRA" and "CAN" have been translated info French as if they were words rather than abbreviations.
This one's a doozy. First off, "trick or treat" isn't an idiom in French, so at best this would read "...while you're tricking or treating." Even then, "tromper" is often used to mean "cheat" as in "cheat on your partner," and "traitez" means "treat" as in "this lotion will treat your eczema."
This is bad in English and worse in French. In English, it would be better written as "No-Beef Broth." In French it's not even ambiguous, it clearly says "not beef broth." Magritte would be proud.
Sometimes they have bad translations from French to English. The French do call the pastry a croissant, but the word also means "crescent." And, as in this translation, it can also be read as the present participle of "croître," which means "to increase."
@loresjoberg just letting you know that the fediverse has its own trouduction community ! Not quite as active, but it exits : https: //jlai.lu/c/trouduction (space on purpose, so it doesn't gets pinged)
