At least, Canon has room for improvements here. Of course it isn’t that much of a hassle to maybe insert two CDs to get the correct one, but it’s anything but optimal…
Given that you’d want a particular language, which if these two “EOS DIGITAL Solution Disks” would you pick? Do you spot the difference?
(Click for large view.)
Without any connection to my atheism, I think that surely many religious people will giggle at texts like these:
“As the end of the eternal worship* in the parish of Wolnzach, this Saturday the celebratory evening service will be held at 6 p.m. in the parish chruch “St. Laurentius”.”
Pfaffenhofener Kurier 1 Mar 08, translation and emphasis mine.
(And yes, I looked into it* and know that it’s not uncommon to have this eternal worship move from one parish or church to the next.)
* This is the literal translation of German “Ewige Anbetung” for this catholic tradition, I don’t know if there’s a special English name for it, and there is no corresponding English Wikipedia page.
My regular readers might remember the scam mail series with “Anghela” with funny automatic translation, which I received in German and tried to reproduce in English, somewhat simulating the bad language – but Anghela isn’t alone. And this long mail, too, which tries just as well to grift travel money from overcredulous recipients or use them for money laundering, went to many mailboxes, with a few variations and different mail addreses – here the German antispam forum thread, and an example of another German commenting it.
„Hello!!!!!!!!“
As Terry Pratchett put it, Multiple exclamation marks are a sure sign of a diseased mind. In this case, diseasedly criminal, it seems. „about my letter please be not astonished! I saw your account on the web page of the acquaintances. This web page is called “FreundScout24” or “Meetic”.“ Now where? Can’t remember that? Diseased mind, hm?
„You have the registration there?“ I thought you saw me there – so why the question?
„I want that you understand me. I will strive to [German] write properly.“ Then why don’t you try harder in this mail? The first impression is often important! „I think that you man with whom I are I can happy be.“ I think that you should your school fee you get back: „You understand mine [German]? I studied [German] in the school and the college.“
„I upset am when I write this letter for you.“ And I’m upset when I receive spam. Well, at least you can laugh at spam like yours… „I will very very attend your reply.“ Oh, you too? Anghela was eager about that too.
Earlier today, a spam mail which slipped through my filter honestly announced its dishonest intentions already in the subject line:
New job! fishy
The main text then was just a “Ciao”, a link and badly translated prose. (And there have been are other variations with other words, of course. Most got filtered out correctly, though.)
And a comment spam disguised as questions asked yesterday, among other things:
On what a cursor operates this forum works?
I’ll be so kind and answer this question: Mostly, it’s probably one like this one 
, and this 
and that 
are quite common, too – but basically, it doesn’t matter. 
The Donaukurier is introducing the candidates for the local elections in March, displaying three randomly selected on the sidebar next to the content. And finally I’ve found my preferred candidate:
(Which is a variation of a general template name, like “John Public” or similar. And he doesn’t belong to any party.)
On the “further candidates” overview page, he didn’t show up anymore, though…