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Uh? No, I think the point is that labels "Made in Turkey" ran the risk of being lazily translated to "Fabriqué en Dinde" in French by a misconfigured automatic translation software and you no longer have this problem if you use words spelt differently for the bird and the country. Nothing to do with "d'Inde".


Yep. That comment came remembering the pointing and laughing and explaining it to the kids.

I do tend to check the labels, sometimes there are jokes hidden there.

For example, a computer bag I have from during the Bush Administration has a label with the text:

Ne pas secher a la machiene Ne pas repasser Nous sommes desoles que notre president soit un idiot. Nous n'avons pa vote pour lui.


For those who don't speak French, last two sentences are:

We are sorry that our president is an idiot. We didn't vote for him.

http://www.dzof.org/2004/06/nous-sommes-desoles-que-notre.ht...




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