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Looks Like Apple Failed French: Perfect Idiot!

macenstein.com — According our good friend Chris over at the French Mac site macgeneration, Apple’s MacBook announcements were riddled with quite a few spelling/grammatical errors, the most notable being this one. Apparently “parfaitement con” translates to “perfect idiot” in French. Whoops!

Who dugg this? Made popular Oct 16, 2008

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  • disrupter, on 10/16/2008, -4/+75USA: The only country that elected the worst President ever twice.
  • inactive, on 10/16/2008, -16/+71No, that was the word they intended to use.

    "Perfect idiot' describes their potential buyers. $1999 for a laptop? Seriously.......

  • inactive, on 10/16/2008, -4/+38> Looks Like Apple Failed French: Perfect Idiot!
    > Looks Like Apple Failed French
    > Looks Like Apple Failed
    > Apple Failed

    (AND NOTHING OF VALUE WAS LOST)
  • commentbot, on 10/16/2008, -2/+34Someone's gonna get fired...
  • hamobu, on 10/15/2008, -4/+29Americans calling french Idiots. That is unheard of!

  • SpeedSteamBoat, on 10/16/2008, -3/+27Americans: The only people still relying on the events of sixty years ago to prop up their self image.
  • b9gh47q, on 10/15/2008, -0/+21Actually, "parfaitement con" means "perfectly stupid".
  • bismarck73, on 10/16/2008, -0/+18This is partially incorrect, they wrote 'Parfaitement conçu' but the ç had bad encoding which made their page rendering incomplete.
  • brickbat, on 10/16/2008, -2/+20There is the awesome french comedy called Le Diner de Cons. Roughly translated to The Dinner of Idiots. Its a must watch.
  • hamobu, on 10/15/2008, -38/+55France: The only country that lost WW2 twice.
  • nkassi, on 10/16/2008, -2/+18Earth the only planet(we know off) with cross continental finger pointing.
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  • disrupter, on 10/16/2008, -1/+11just shut up
  • Cayfox, on 10/16/2008, -2/+11Ho hum. Another Francophobic comment from an American with a single-figure IQ. Enjoy your 'freedom fries', douchebag.


  • WhiskeyLemur, on 06/30/2009, -1/+10You got me, blaisedaly... I'm *super*-envious of people who see their machine as a status symbol or some sort of twisted affirmation of their identity.
  • freezerburn666, on 10/16/2008, -4/+13macs are just pcs with bling anyways...
  • then00b, on 10/15/2008, -27/+36This would matter if it wasn't France.
  • iticu, on 10/16/2008, -1/+8Because it's not like France is the main reason America is free or anything..
  • SirDocOfTardis, on 10/15/2008, -6/+13Exactly, who hasn't failed french?
  • captainsky, on 10/15/2008, -1/+7That's why they should have used Bablefish...
  • polalion, on 10/16/2008, -1/+7We're not even talking about "potential" here. We're talking those who have been jerking off to the products ever since their deity Steve Jobs announced it somewhere, and would queue to queue for a week to get it.
  • Narcism, on 10/16/2008, -1/+7Vous avez également utilisé un traducteur...
  • inactive, on 10/16/2008, -3/+8well they must be stupid, they thought America was going to be a bastion of freedom, they sent the statue of liberty over and everything. stupid frogs how wrong could they be.
  • veggiemoore, on 10/16/2008, -0/+5"Entièrement conçu selon des critères qui restent à définir" takes the cake:
    Entirely designed according to criteria that remain to be defined.
  • angusm, on 10/16/2008, -0/+5The French got a big laugh when the Bolivians awarded unpopular French president Jacques Chirac the country's highest honor, the Order of the Condor. In French, a "con d'or" would be a 'golden idiot'.
  • Janv1er, on 10/16/2008, -0/+4Yeah but thats like really old French, you'd look 'con' if you used it as the word pussy or *****.
  • inactive, on 10/16/2008, -5/+9This would matter if it wasn't Apple.
  • bushout, on 10/16/2008, -0/+4The French think everything means "idiot" when you mispronounce their language.

  • jesperhh, on 10/16/2008, -0/+3yeah, the pixels are all wrong
  • xeic, on 10/16/2008, -0/+3Totally agree. I got it on DVD... Mr. Pignon's last scene, is one of the most hilarious moments that I've ever seen on a film. It's something almost epic. When you are thinking that his silliness is impossible to overcome, then... No, I'm not going to spoiler the movie, just you must see it for yourself.
  • pbgswd, on 10/16/2008, -1/+4Epic Fail. It either means stupid, idiot, or ***** depending on the context. Or is it truth in advertising?
  • Thogster, on 10/16/2008, -0/+3Les singe est sur la branche!
  • mantis108, on 10/16/2008, -2/+5Well, no -- more like a French speaking American Apple employee calling her own company's product design perfectly idiotic.
  • exomni, on 10/16/2008, -1/+4> Fail
    > fail

    >(NOTHING LOST)
  • ploke, on 10/16/2008, -0/+3language translation is rarely perfect. "con" can be a noun or an adjective, so "idiot" or "idiotic" is a pretty good translation of the word.
  • Stemnin, on 10/16/2008, -1/+4Calisse de tabarnac!
  • bismarck73, on 10/16/2008, -0/+3:-) merci
  • Janv1er, on 10/16/2008, -0/+3conçu*
  • inactive, on 10/16/2008, -0/+3Like mentioned before, the problem with "Parfaitement Concu" is that the cedilla broke the end of the word, which is just funny.

    If you want to nitpick, the use of the word "unibody" in the description is a worse offense... It's not a word, or a typo, it is just not translated at all. It should read "monococque", which is funny because they did use the word "cocque" just before.
  • WhiskeyLemur, on 06/30/2009, -1/+3Computers are like religion in that regard - I don't care *what* you believe/use, just don't get all holier-than-thou when I disagree with your choice.
  • alperea, on 10/16/2008, -1/+3It was correct. You'd have to be a perfect idiot to pay 3x more for a laptop with the same hardware. I kid I kid because I love!
  • angusm, on 10/16/2008, -0/+2You still occasionally hear it used in the original meaning, although "chatte" - literally, a female cat, i.e. pussy - is more common.
  • kaskarn, on 10/16/2008, -0/+2va fourrer ta mere? Sont pas mauvais les ptits quebecois...
  • dwtc, on 10/16/2008, -0/+2The English site says "New design. New features. New technologies. All engineered to standards that don’t even exist yet." I'm pretty sure that's what they meant to say.
  • Alexcarrier, on 10/17/2008, -1/+3The day bigots like you shut up will be the day sovereignty will stop beeing an issue. How'd you feel if your own country spat on you daily for absolutely no reason other than the language you speak? Yeah, you'd want to separate.
  • inactive, on 10/16/2008, -0/+2Don't blame the québécois :)... It's "putain", not "tain", and we don't use "putain" anyway... that would be the French. Nor would we ever say "Va fourrer ta mere". It would be more like "Enfant de chienne"
  • TwistedSilver, on 10/16/2008, -1/+3You think that this is bad?
    Check out the "engrish" translations in Mainland China. THOSE ARE HYSTERICAL!!!
  • veggiemoore, on 10/16/2008, -0/+2Ok, fair enough, but I learned French in North Carolina, and since then my only exposure has been from my Acadian friends here in NB, quebecois programming, and Tetes a claques. J'essaie!
  • veggiemoore, on 10/16/2008, -1/+3Ah, tain! Va fourrer ta mère! (Aha, je pense que mon français a été endommagé par les québécois)

  • Dunge, on 10/16/2008, -2/+4Vous êtes tous une gang de sale cons.
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