As per the title, what is the silliest message you have seen on your Mac?
This one, today...
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Hugh
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Most ludicrous message from Apple?
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Yet…if you turn off WiFi or disconnect from the VPN, well now! All of a sudden OS X is VERY cooperative in ejecting the server volume!!!
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Lies. Every time. And I keep falling for it, gullible bastard that I am.
@MultiFinder17 — I just hope it won’t fail. Nothing more infuriating than something blowing up at 99% or “less than a minute remaining”.
Using the system in Italian there are plenty of creative translations I got to see
The most terrifying feeling is when you're 99% sure that some install has hung there, so you stare at your Mac, your finger hovering over the power button, ready to hold it down. You know that if you give it just a few more seconds, it's bound to snap out of it. Just a few... More... Nah, screw it.
If that happens, I try to give it at least an hour or so. If nothing has happened by then, it probably never will.
Man, I run so many of my computers on various patchers that I never know how long anything should take any more. It’s all just a crapshoot to see whether I killed the install or not
Not early Intel, but still one of the most “uh, what?” responses I’ve ever had to an error message that should have just been a download error.
This is the sole reason I have the sudo diskutil unmount force command memorized. Very useful!
Same in Dutch. Microsoft was especially bad with Office 2011 on the Mac. Instead of saying ‘Stop Word’ which would be the same as in other applications, it said ‘Einde Word’ which is both grammatically incorrect (It should be ‘Beëindig Word’) and also just a weird sentence. It could be interpreted as ‘The end of Word’
That would be epic if a notification sound accompanied it to the tune of REM's "End of the World as We Know It" ?It could be interpreted as ‘The end of Word’
Only if one slows the part, from 45rpm speed down to 16rpm speed, at the moment when Stipe says, “Leonard Bernstein.”
While we're at it, I've always been slightly confused by the German translation of the File menu in the menu bar: "Ablage".
That would be a more accurate translation for filing system, depot, storage, etc., but less so for a single file.
"Datei" is a much more accurate translation in its context (used pretty much everywhere else, most prominently in DOS and Windows).
So where did "Ablage" come from? Did they think "Datei" sounded too computer-y/technical? They could have gone for "Akte" instead which would also have been OK. Case in point: "The X-Files" is called "Akte X" in German.
That would be a more accurate translation for filing system, depot, storage, etc., but less so for a single file.
"Datei" is a much more accurate translation in its context (used pretty much everywhere else, most prominently in DOS and Windows).
So where did "Ablage" come from? Did they think "Datei" sounded too computer-y/technical? They could have gone for "Akte" instead which would also have been OK. Case in point: "The X-Files" is called "Akte X" in German.
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Fitting: 2011 is more or less the year our family switched to OpenOffice. The end of Word!Same in Dutch. Microsoft was especially bad with Office 2011 on the Mac. Instead of saying ‘Stop Word’ which would be the same as in other applications, it said ‘Einde Word’ which is both grammatically incorrect (It should be ‘Beëindig Word’) and also just a weird sentence. It could be interpreted as ‘The end of Word’
We used to have a similar situation: the File menu got translated into Archivio (pretty much “archive”), but elsewhere file was usually translated as “documento”. I’ve recently noticed that in recent years apple stopped translating in Italian File altogether, I guess that they feel we understand what a file is (Microsoft never translated it, I think).While we're at it, I've always been slightly confused by the German translation of the File menu in the menu bar: "Ablage".
That would be a more accurate translation for filing system, depot, storage, etc., but less so for a single file.
"Datei" is a much more accurate translation in its context (used pretty much everywhere else, most prominently in DOS and Windows).
They call it 'Archief' in Dutch which means the same. In Windows they use 'Bestand' which is a much more accurate translation for 'File'While we're at it, I've always been slightly confused by the German translation of the File menu in the menu bar: "Ablage".
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That would be a more accurate translation for filing system, depot, storage, etc., but less so for a single file.
"Datei" is a much more accurate translation in its context (used pretty much everywhere else, most prominently in DOS and Windows).
So where did "Ablage" come from? Did they think "Datei" sounded too computer-y/technical? They could have gone for "Akte" instead which would also have been OK. Case in point: "The X-Files" is called "Akte X" in German.
Kinda weird, right?
