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In Czech “Guest” is “Host”...

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I think I may have just seen my favorite localization bug report to date.  A tester recently opened a bug against our Czech localization of Hyper-V – where the sentence:

The guest operating system (guest) is the operating system that runs inside the virtual machine

Was localized into:

Hostovaný operační systém (host) je operační systém, který běží uvnitř virtuálního počítače

The tester saw this section of the localized string:

Hostovaný operační systém (host) je operační systém, který běží uvnitř virtuálního počítače

And immediately thought that not only had the string not been translated – it had somehow been swapped from “guest” to the opposite term “host”.  When this was sent to the localization team – their response was quick:

The Czech word for “guest” is actually “host”.

Cheers,
Ben

Comments

  • Anonymous
    June 02, 2010
    Funny! <Todd />

  • Anonymous
    June 02, 2010
    ...and that's why professional products should never be localized. We (I'm Czech) have more of such funny translations and communication between people using terms in English anyway and the ones using official localization. We are unable to understand eachother ;-)

  • Anonymous
    June 02, 2010
    Yesterday I got a RT about the Dutch word for client "klant", where in Swedish a "klant" means an "idiot". Languages are fun.

  • Anonymous
    June 03, 2010
    Hi, I've got a question about running MS-DOS in VPC2007. I cannot resize the VM window when running MS-DOS7.10 in VPC2007. How do you solve this? I've installed VM additions from VPC2004 and try to use different settings in Display menu, but nothing seems to work. I know you can resize the window when running Windows XP and I can't understand why this doesn't work in MS-DOS... P.S.: Thanks for providing so much useful information about Virtual PC on your blog. I don't have a twitter account, that's why I'm posting my question here

  • Anonymous
    June 04, 2010
    Smith - Unfortunately there is no way to do this. Cheers, Ben

  • Anonymous
    June 07, 2010
    Too bad. Anyway, thanks for your response! :D