Environment Canada tornado tweets stalled by language laws

Talk about a stupid policy!

I don't understand why they just don't throw it in Google translate and fire it out - even if it's not perfect. Heaven forbid they save a life because of an actual warning.

Surely they can use current software to send two tweets, one at a time in each language. Of course then maybe the fight would be about which language gets sent first. Only in Canader.

I don't understand why they just don't throw it in Google translate and fire it out - even if it's not perfect. Heaven forbid they save a life because of an actual warning.

The French get very angry at things that are google translated. You can be telling if a thing is put into the translation machine of google because this is how it is to read.

That said--dumb policy.

I don't understand why they just don't throw it in Google translate and fire it out - even if it's not perfect. Heaven forbid they save a life because of an actual warning.

The French get very angry at things that are google translated. You can be telling if a thing is put into the translation machine of google because this is how it is to read.

You say that like it's a bad thing.

And not reading a tornado warning is so much better? If the French complained about poor grammar in the thing that is meant to save lives, I'd probably be surprised. But only a little.

Let the stupid fuckers take it up Mother Nature. There aren't too many uni lingual francophones outside of Quebec, nor are there many tornadoes in Quebec.

#LOLCanada

My reply in French translated by Google... not bad.

***It is not true that we are shocked because of it. Next time, think a little before making generalizations. Apart from that, the way you write, Google would have a black fun trying to translate your text.

"Black fun"? Is that a weird/dangerous French sex position thing?

Given their expert broken English, I don't feel the least bit bad about it.

Ridiculous though.

On the flip side - I'm sure there are enough other means, that Twitter won't be the end all/be all of the weather warning system. We've all lived without it thus far.