Assorted Afflatuses

When I read, yesterday, that Six Apart would release an update to the Movable Type 4 beta today, I figured that they would. But with only an hour and a half left until tomorrow in the Pacific time zone, I have begun to develop doubts that such a wonderful event will not come to pass.

While I spent half an hour sitting at my computer waiting for the beta to go online this evening, I paid a visit to my friends at flickr. Unlike the somewhat feature-happy people at Six Apart, the developers at flickr have added some new features since last I visited. Among them is support for six new languages, French among them. So, patiently waiting to fix my website, I switched the language just to see how it would feel to browse all those pretty pictures en français.

As anyone who uses flickr knows, the homepage greets users with a greeting in an attempt to impart the ability to greet in another language. Obviously someone browsing the flickr files in English would learn nothing by learning how to say hello in English. But for the francophones, such a greeting might prove (mildly) educational. Unsurprisingly, then, I was greeting with an English-language salutation that looked like this:

There is something mildly humorous about that little blob of text. The caption below the image reads, "Now you know how to say good day in English!" If I had a nickel for every time I heard those two greetings mixed up I would have a very empty piggy bank. Ah, the joys of translation.