啼笑皆非

啼笑皆非，是我看過這則新聞後的反應。謹節錄以下部分，以供眾唾：

Kingsoft Corp., a Chinese software company, acknowledged its translation program was at fault and said it was a regrettable error.

“I know this is a very bad word," Huang Luoyi, a product manager for the Beijing-based company’s translation software, told The Associated Press in a telephone interview.

He explained that when the Chinese characters for “dark brown" are typed into an older version of its Chinese-English translation software, the offensive description comes up.

“We got the definition from a Chinese-English dictionary. We’ve been using the dictionary for 10 years. Maybe the dictionary was updated, but we probably didn’t follow suit," he said.

罪狀一：明知故犯。早知「nigger」不是甚麼好話（實際上是非常侮辱的稱謂），還用它作甚？
罪狀二：不思長進。所謂「十年人事幾番新」，竟有翻譯軟件商十年守住同一部漢英字典，奇也！

叫我最疑惑的是，翻譯「深棕色」這樣顯淺的字，為何要以字典作據？就是你問一個英文只有小學程度的人，他都會答「dark/deep brown」，而萬萬不會想到「nigger brown」吧。 😕