Diarmuid Kennan wrote:
I recently had a PM at a client write to me in French, which I don't speak.
I machine translated the e-mail (a request for a quote), and then machine translated my reply, providing a price/deadline.
The PM responded (in French), wishing to make sure that there was no misunderstanding: the translation should be to English, not French.
I responded, again in machine translation, that naturally I only translate to my native language, English.
The PM responded (in French) that that was fine, but they felt it necessary to confirm the language combination because my French was so good.
When I told them (once again in machine translation) that I have no French and was relying on Google Translate, I received a one word reply (in French), which this time I did actually understand: merde!
Thanks for sharing that one.