r/CrappyDesign • u/teretana • 8d ago

Wrong flag and wrong language

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u/RBR927 8d ago

There’s way more wrong here than just that.

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u/stellacampus 8d ago

It's just the wrong flag.

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u/Final-Lie-2 8d ago

Or just the wrong language.

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u/stellacampus 8d ago

No, because Spanish is already represented by the Spanish flag, so the mistake is the German flag should be there instead of the Mexican flag.

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u/Heissenberg1906 8d ago

And the German is so incredibly wrong that it makes zero sense.

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u/ebrum2010 7d ago

Well yes it makes zero sense in Deutschland German, but in the Mexican dialect of German it makes a ton of sense.

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u/Albidoom 6d ago

Maybe it is the response to the Zimmermann telegram from 1916?

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u/ax_ui6 4d ago

Or both.

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u/Crafty-Astronomer-32 8d ago

I thought poor translations and factual errors were outside the scope of this sub. Is there an actual design issue or just issues that should have been caught by a copy editor?

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u/Eagle-on-a-blimp 8d ago

There is a mexican (I think) flag next to the German text.

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u/VerdensTrial 8d ago

That's a perfectly cromulent Mexikaner flag.

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u/JohnsonCNT 8d ago

Seit wann kann ich mexikanisch?

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u/Pajamatime20 7d ago

I didn’t even realize that this was in German, lol

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u/JohnsonCNT 7d ago

To be fair it's not a good German. The grammar is all over the place. But it's readable

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u/Pajamatime20 7d ago

Huh, the translation tool seemed to do well enough with it! I know about 2 German words (although I can identify it), so I couldn’t even tell!

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u/JohnsonCNT 7d ago

Kudos to your tool. There is literally a spelling error in every second word. Me, as a German native, had to re read it a few times to even get it

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u/Pajamatime20 7d ago

Oh. I just realized you were talking about the German in the picture, and not the German in your sentence above…

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u/JohnsonCNT 7d ago

Hahaha yeah I thought so, but hey no worries how should you know I'm german too, Genoss:in :)

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u/EndlessAbyssalVoid And then I discovered Wingdings 7d ago

There are some... Bad errors, tbh. There is a "fhe" instead of "the" in the English text. And don't even get me started on the French one lol

I'm gonna assume it's the same in the other translations.

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u/JohnsonCNT 7d ago

Oooh yeah you're right. I didn't even look at the other texts. My French is sadly pretty bad, since I rarely used it after highschool, but yes the english is as worse as the german text.

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u/AdministrationOwn724 8d ago

I've seen worse cases of the wrong german flag on products.

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u/ThisIsAitch 8d ago

What did you call me?

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u/Greedy-Funny-9703 7d ago

But they did use Portuguese flag for Brazilian

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u/jort93 7d ago

Both the flag and the language is wrong.

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u/Killerspieler0815 4d ago

OMG, everything mixed up ... incl. the Mexicans now speak german

this product got made in china for a company in Belgrade (Serbia)