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Here’s what the Apple Store web page has in its top-right corner when you have something in your cart, inviting to click on the green button to check out:

Here’s what the same page looks like in the French-language Apple Store for France:

And here’s what the same page looks like in the French-language Apple Store for Canada:

I don’t know what is more shocking: that anyone at Apple Canada would think that they need to have a Canada-specific translation instead of simply using the French translation from the French store, or that someone who uses “Vérifier maintenant” as the French translation for “Check Out Now” calls himself/herself a translator.

Needless to say, I’ve fired a textual missile in the general direction of the feedback department at the Apple Store, but I have little hope of it being read by anyone or of Apple doing anything about it. After all, if their French-language quality standards are so poor that they have let this slip through in the first place…

And if you think this is an isolated incident, consider this:

“Contrôle de l’invité” is supposed to be French for… “Guest Checkout.” Ouch. Is this the way to the strip search, Sir?

And then there is this:

And then this:

Yes, this is the French-language web site for the Canadian Apple Store.

Methinks it is something other than the invité that needs to be contrôlé here.

This entry was posted by Pierre Igot on Friday, September 10th, 2010 at 5:30 pm and is filed under Macintosh. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Responses are currently closed, but you can trackback from your own site.