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I wonder why the error message is also in … French? (I’m not located anywhere French speaking). > Désolés! > Une erreur s'est produite lorsque nous avons tent
by x0xrx 5y ago
I wonder why the error message is also in … French? (I’m not located anywhere French speaking).
> Désolés!
> Une erreur s'est produite lorsque nous avons tenté de traiter votre requête. Soyez assuré que nous travaillons déjà à la résolution du problème que nous pensons trouver très rapidement.
- jpgvm 5y agoMine is in Japanese: > 申し訳ありません。 > リクエストの処理中に問題が発生しました。 現在問題を調査しておりますので、解決するまでもう少々お待ちください。
- themodelplumber 5y agoGotta love how polite standard business Japanese is. It's no wonder they named their moon probe after this national treasure of a philosophy.
- Waterluvian 5y agoI don't follow. It seems like an almost exact translation to all the other languages for this error page.
- themodelplumber 5y agoYou've never pondered the beauty and provenance of phrases like moushiwake arimasen or omachi kudasai, I take it? I mean, you could say they mean we're sorry and please wait, but that's also just wrong in a whole other way.
- tjpnz 5y agoJapanese has multiple politeness levels, in this particular case the message is using keigo which is the most polite. At a guess I'd say that the machine translation is identical all the way down.
- Waterluvian 5y agoThanks. I know nothing of Japanese so this was confusing to me. I'm thinking about it, and I guess there's "politeness levels" in English, but probably not as much so, and usually in a form of passive aggresisveness. That's fascinating. So the "style" of language they use has a huge impact on the message, possibly more so than the actual words? Very McLuhanesque :)
- themodelplumber 5y agoYou even conjugate the verbs differently for your customers. Richard Feynman talked about this point really frustrating him and turning him off Japanese entirely. He just wanted to use words to get things done...granted for informational purposes it's nice to not have to conjugate the verb for download based on who downloaded it.
- Waterluvian 5y agoI kind of get that sentiment. Fundamentally I think it's beautiful and I'm delighted by such variety in human languages. But I spent 10 years learning French and it drove me nuts how many different ways you conjugate verbs.
- markus_zhang 5y agoI'm in Canada so sort of make sense to show bilingual page.
- julianlam 5y agoUnless you're Quebecois, in which case the province would prefer French appear first. _smirk_
- tapan_jk 5y agoI am in India and my message is in English and Japanese. Never seen a Japanese message on aws before.
- leto_ii 5y agoSame in the Netherlands.
- myth2018 5y agoI'm in Brazil and also read the message both in english and french