The fund Telus is trying to tweet in French and you don’t understand anything

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Caroline G. Murphy

Tuesday, 30 January 2018 18:48

UPDATE
Tuesday, 30 January 2018 18:58

Look at this article

Tweets of the Fund Telus became viral, Tuesday, for the wrong reasons, prompting the company to apologize to its French-language subscribers in the end of the day.

In effect, the funds that finance the creation of content in the field of health” has published a series of inspirational messages the past few weeks. The catch? They seem to have been translated from the English by a machine on which we would unfortunately not updated since 1997.

Here are some examples:

Respond to what?

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Leave what?

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But the leader of the bad translation is up to that publication aggressive dating back to the 22nd of January.

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We grind?

Of course, the internet has been a joy to comment on the thing:

Siboire Fund Telus…wicked translation of the bôtord of torieu. #fondstelus #valetuer #mauvaisetraduction #torieu

A post shared by Pierre-Luc Lussier (@piellussier) on Jan 30, 2018 at 3:32pm PST

“Ben see it? My phone it stop vibrationner. What is this going -?”
– Manager of @FondsTELUS.

— Mathieu Charlebois (@OursMathieu) January 30, 2018

The #FondsTELUS finance the creation of content(s) exception(s) in the field of health and well-being in Canada….

I don’t feel well when I read the content of their announcement in French ! I have to take a deep breath@liseravary @Telus #Telus pic.twitter.com/C4YRUQA94I

— MarieFranceRemillard (@MFRemillard) January 30, 2018

Congratulations to @FondsTELUS well know how to use Google Translate. But we should not trust this service in 100% of cases. pic.twitter.com/MWpokaubVy

— Raphaël Gendron-Martin (@RGMartinJDM) January 30, 2018

Dear @fondstelus: your message are translate bad in tongue french.

— Daniel Thibault (@danielthibault) January 30, 2018

Wow, there’s an account manager at Telus, who will open the account @FondsTELUS there was a time the worse it is going to “freaking the fuck” sound (freak the f*** out)

— Christopher G. Nardi (@ChrisGNardi) January 30, 2018

Delete your account.

— F. J. Specter (@InSpecter07) January 30, 2018

“Boss, I think we’re going viral in Quebec. “
“Great, send more inspirational quotes. “

— Pa Normandin (@PaNormandin) January 30, 2018

If you need translation services, please do not hesitate to contact us! 😉

— Network Access P (@ReseauAccesP) January 30, 2018

Late Tuesday, the company Telus is working to respond to the numerous complaints via his Twitter account, assuring its subscribers that publications that were deemed problematic were going to be corrected.

We have taken note of this publication. It is completely inappropriate and unacceptable. We apologize and will correct the situation.

— TELUS in French (@TELUSfr) January 30, 2018

– With the collaboration of Philippe Melbourne Dufour