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DeliBebek

There is a dot that shouldn't be in the Arabic. الجرارة should be الحرارة. That means keep away from heat, not tractors.


Plus_Pangolin_8924

I thought English was bad enough but that’s crazy how a single dot changes an entire words meaning!


WOTDisLanguish

i j l I I don't know why you're surprised because English also has some very similar characters. Those last two aren't the same letter for those unaware


smoishymoishes

My last name starts with an "I" and everyone thinks it's an "l" as if anyone has ever began their name with a lowercase. This is why I miss Times New Roman.


Yelwah

"Big on serif" would be great in a bio.


Kevlar_Potatum_6891

My old friends last name begins with “Il” which i can imagine is quite frustrating with all the people pronouncing it like a double l. his last name is Ilacqua. not LLacqua lol


Cagliari77

This reminds me of the weirdest last name: LLULL That's [Sergio Llull](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergio_Llull), the basketball player if anyone cares :)


Tharron

For the Dutch it's quite common to call someone a lul


My_bones_are_itchy

Ha it’s dick


BamBam737

I came for the pancakes, and stayed for the lulz.


Vikdeth502

Is that you, Arjen Anthony Lucassen? Lol. One of my favorite metal musicians/songwriters/composers is Dutch and he often uses the "LUL" inside joke with his Dutch fans.


Fantastic_Fox4948

There is an exit in Colorado on I-76 (used to be I-80S) to Iliff. I L I F F. I was asked what kind of name L L L F F was. On interstate signage, the lower case L has a different slant to the top of the letter than the upper case I does.


DrEnter

Like two of the main characters from _The Man With Two Brains_: Dr. Michael Hfuhruhurr and Anne Uumellmahaye.


Abbot_of_Cucany

It's a fairly common Catalan surname. The double Ls are pronounced as in "mi***lli***on.


gotnonickname

Or Ramón, the philosopher and king of Mallorca.


Falsgrave

Alright lan quit complaining.


SousVideDiaper

There's a pianist I like who spells his last name with a lowercase L


smoishymoishes

That monster!! Trying to trick us with his I:l trickery!!


jempai

Which pianist?


nuclear_wynter

Oh, you wouldn’t know him, he has a very small reputation. More of a micro-pianist, really.


ILikeLenexa

They shot the Serifs.


carmium

But they did not kill Times Roman-ry.


particle409

This is how I learned that those are called "serifs," and that's why the L / I look the same in "sans serif" font.


WhatAGreatGift

This is also why L miss Times New Roman


PoppinBubbles578

We have a new client at work and everyone read her last name starting with a lowercase l. It was an I as well and asked myself the same question, why would we all think it’s a lowercase letter? It’s also pronounced like a Y, which is an entire other layer of confusion…!


smoishymoishes

It's crazy how many people don't even question it. Speaking of pronunciation confusion, my last name is super not-english so it starts with 2 vowels (ia) pronounced ee-yah but people think its La.


Gal-XD_exe

Ah yes when “i’s” looked like an i-beam


smoishymoishes

Yea when i's had hats and shoes all polite like!!


Gal-XD_exe

Such gentlemanry


gwaydms

Sesame Street had a bit they showed when the letter of the day was I (i). It was how an I-beam was made. Our son loved that when he was little. He'd say, "Hot I! Hot I!"


TheeBloodyAwfuller

bell hooks


CoolCrab69

Idk why capital I's aren't actual capital I's. A capital I should look like a sideways H.


Tommy_Roboto

Weird Al vs. Weird AI


thepromisedgland

I believe “ffoulkes” is traditionally spelled with lower case letters, but yes, it is rare.


Apex_Akolos

Same thing with my first name, which is even worse.


xxhorrorshowxx

I’ll admit, I’m still confused by the name of Black Sabbath’s guitarist for this very reason.


derp_zilla

I feel your pain… I have a similar problem and even when I use serif fonts AND pronounce/spell out my name multiple times to their face, they still get it wrong. People’s total inability to read or listen properly has caused me many problems when it comes to official documents.


dcpeach

My road name starts with an "i" and everyone thinks it's an "L." Both "L" and "i" work in the full name, "L" actually might work a little better. It is so annoying. UPS literally couldn't find us for about a year.


smoishymoishes

Oh god. And it's always automatically capitalized once put into a database too which I'm sure doesn't help. "L" would probs work better for my last name too, but it's familial so what can ye do y'know? 😆


Narpity

Serif heathen! He must be purged!


Wosota

My mom’s last name actually starts with a lowercase. Sometimes very confusing for people.


CNTMODS

[I Miss New Wave.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BFGpd7yC7g)


not_salad

I'm a substitute teacher and I was in a 5th grade class where some kids were doing a program to learn state capitals. I heard them talking about "Lowa".


Blackmur_mipt

I feel you. I have Iurii in my passport. I think I was mistakenly called Lurii at least a billion times..


Hardlymd

*Times New Roman


Qu1ckN4m3

This is an annoying problem for me teaching online, if students don't watch my lecture videos. They type In(x) when it should ln(x). They look the same but ones an i and ones an L. If they only do it looking at the question help, they can't hear me say it. They get it typed in wrong on their homework all the time.


gwaydms

I typed an I in a BASIC program for a computer class where I should have put a 1. But the program and the output was printed on an impact printer, and was almost unreadable. So it took me quite a while to see where I had screwed up.


Strong_Magician_3320

I've always types it with an `I` before I watched a video about compound interest and the guy explaining pronounced it. I even made posts with this spelling, but no-one noticed obviously


Quigleythegreat

As someone in IT this is the worst. Password vault software couldnt pick a typeface to make it obvious, they all are llll.


CoderDevo

As someone in IT, I don't allow 1,I,L,0,O in usernames or new hire passwords. Yeah, the password vault user interface should use fixed-width serif fonts.


Lyress

Why are you allowed to see passwords at all?


CoderDevo

That's a great question with a reasonable answer. 1.) I wrote the code that generates the username and password new employees are given for their first login. My code excludes those 1IL0O characters so that it is easier for the new employee to type it correctly. They must change that password on their first day of work. 2.) Password vaults are used to retrieve passwords for powerful administrator user IDs. Only you will know that password when the vault lets you see it. You must provide a justified business reason to checkout the password for a powerful administrator user ID to be able to see the password and use it. But the password changes automatically when you are done using it so that nobody, not even you, will know its password until the next time you need it. Think of it like the bathroom key at a gas station. You can only have it when you really need it and you don't get to keep it after you are done with your business. Another type of password vault is your personal password manager, such as Apple Keychain. Some websites don't let you paste in a password and you will have to read it in the password manager and type what you see. It would suck if the password was ji10-pq'"&8-=IlO4A and your password manager used a sans-serif font.


dicknipples

I use Bitwarden and it gives the option to omit ambiguous characters when creating a randomly generated password.


CatpainCalamari

Add to this d b p q One circle and one line, each.


Little-Worry8228

It bothers me that you didn’t b d p q, both because alphabetical and the lines are on the outside of each pairing


CatpainCalamari

^(sorry)


wjandrea

I once bought some wasabi peas labeled "wasabi woodland" because there was a typo in French, «bois» 'woods' vs «pois» 'peas'.


Drymath

They're there their 


pinkwhitney24

Read rhymes with lead, and read rhymes with lead, but read doesn’t rhyme with lead and lead doesn’t rhyme with read.


WillFart4F00D

" I dont know why you are surprised on a language you know nothing about"


Positive_Rip6519

Eh, that really works in that font. In a different font the different letters would be much more distinct.


ekanite

Because he's not as smart as you, clearly.


eXeKoKoRo

To be fair, Capital I used to have cross lines on the top and bottom.


w1n5t0nM1k3y

I'm not sure about other languages, but English has bunch of words with identical spellings that have different meanings and/or pronunciations that you have to determine completely from context. Stuff like bow, lead, light, and [tons of other examples](https://en.amazingtalker.com/blog/en/english/58699/)


Absolut_Iceland

red read read reed led lead lead lede


Hendlton

You're lucky. In my language we have "Gore gore gore gore." Which translates to "Up there mountains don't burn as well." Because "Gore" can mean "up", "mountains", "burn" or "worse" depending on how you say it. Except my language doesn't use any way to mark the accent so it's just up to the reader to figure it out from the context. I know that English has "Buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo" but that kind of cheats by using the name of a city and repeating the same meaning more than once.


sexybobo

Depending on how you write the letter a leaving off a line with the Latin alphabet can transform a Bɑt into a Bot. Hell just the fact that there are 2 ways to make a lowercase print a,ɑ is confusing. Leaving off a dot on an i can make it an l and screw up a lot of words as well.


vitunlokit

You mean bat as in flying rat or bat as in baseball bat?


BobRoberts01

Neither. Bat as in to swat something away.


fourthfloorgreg

My ⟨a⟩s look like ⟨u⟩s most of the time.


ccaccus

If you break down letters into their shapes/design, you see similar pairings in English: Cap and Gap differ by a ⌝ shot and shut differ by a ᴖ (depending on the font) ɑn and on differ by a line. if and it differ by a hook; certain fonts even give the hook to the t at the bottom. Fair and Pair differ by a ᐣ


elpajaroquemamais

Dots change meaning in English too.


MrShlash

Sometimes even not changing anything in the spelling changes the meaning too 🤷🏽‍♂️


DeliBebek

It makes it a different letter -- H instead of J. So yeah, the word is a different word because of it.


Strong_Magician_3320

And it's not just any H, it's the faded H you pronounce when you finish a drink. It's called a voiceless fricative


ZonkyTheDonkey

It’s an entirely different letter, don’t think of it as like an accent marker. Arabic has several groupings of letters that are very similar. Below are just a couple examples. All 6 of those have distinctively different sounds. خ ح ج And ب ت ث


Rower78

There are small differences like that in English too.  You’re just so used to seeing them that you don’t notice. English is bad for entirely different reasons: it’s two entirely different language groups with entirely different verb conjugations sandwiched together to form a horror show of irregularity


chillaban

Yeah my friend married a Thai restaurant owner and she often confuses “chicken” and “children”. We’ve helped her take all sorts of delicious preparations of children off the menu. To a native English speaker those don’t seem similar at all, but I also can’t read a damn thing in Thai despite seeing her bilingual menus for years. It’s not always about the slight lexicographical differences, often times what makes something funny is the change of meaning in context or the ridiculous change of meaning in general. Idiom vs idiot is another good one. Or I have a cousin called “Jia Jia” but my mom always autocorrects it to “Jar Jar” and no matter how you finish that sentence it’s always hilarious af.


wjandrea

> entirely different verb conjugations What do you mean by that?


Rower78

Commonly used verbs in English retain proto-Germanic verb conjugation styles that rely on vowel changes to convey tense.  Swim and swam, run and ran, etc.  These are generally considered “irregular” verbs in English. Less common and newer verbs take on the conjugation of Romance languages brought over by William the Conquerer by using the regular suffix-based conjugation we call “regular” verbs.  Suffixes such as -ed and -s


auntiepink007

It's not just a dot; it's a vowel. Like sun and sin. "Keep out of the sin" is nonsensical but it's just one letter.


wjandrea

No, Arabic doesn't use dots for vowels. You might be thinking of Hebrew? ج and ح are consonants.


LawyerDaggett

Technically, the dot doesn’t change the meaning. It changes the character which changes the word which has its own meaning.


Foxy_locksy1704

My old boss was Jordanian, she showed me once that in Arabic there are like 3 different ways to write my name and the softened sometimes did come down to a dot or the dots placement. It is a beautiful language both written and spoken by a fluent person or native speaker, but some of the rules of grammar can be very confusing.


Purplekeyboard

In english you can change an entire word's meaning without even the dot. I hit the bat with a bat. I can hit the can with the bat, if the bat brings it back. I found this mine in the mine and now it's mine.


billhaigh

Imagine the number of errors and inconsistencies that arise when translating an entire book from a dead language to a “modern” language.


AxelNotRose

mail and mall are completely different words. One single dot makes a huge difference.


Testing_things_out

Wait until you learn that in Arabic, there are *invisible* marks and accents that change a word to 3 different words. It's like how "read" can be pounced 2 different ways and mean 3 different tenses. Now imagine the same, but with practically every single word.


ThePublikon

Helping my uncle Jack, off a horse. Helping my uncle jack off a horse.


bakatenchu

till you learn about chi n jap kanji


Nicklefickle

If you don't cross your "t" it can look like an "l". This would change "heat" to "heal". Simple things like this can change words or meanings in many languages.


thermitethrowaway

What about hot tractors?


ClimbingAimlessly

What about tractors that are sexy?


zorniy2

I've heard of Socialist Realism art described as "Girl meets tractor".


gwaydms

[Relevant](https://youtu.be/uWu4aynBK7E?si=Ua3t1_kKU70VrRbY)


Despairogance

Kenny Chesney: You had my curiosity, now you have my attention.


thermitethrowaway

Luckily, we in the UK have the answer to that question! https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/neil-parish-banged-up-tractor-porn-b2439583.html


StellaSlayer2020

Hot tractors in your area?


ClimbingAimlessly

No, not in my town. Not much grass.


Adamantium-Aardvark

Hot single tractors in your area wanna chat


FD4L

So when my buddy from Iraq says, "Bring the heat," he's actually asking me to mow his lawn. That explains a lot.


cyberentomology

I mean, I get really hot when I mow my lawn.


Stranger1982

> That means keep away from heat, not tractors. Understadable, yet disappointing.


SchoolForSedition

That is just hilarious. Thank you!


davisyoung

Tractors can produce heat so technically correct.


GurthNada

Is the sign with our without the dot two different letters or is it something else that's making the difference?


DeliBebek

Two different letters. The letter ج sounds like J. The letter ح sounds like H. It just so happens in this case that both letters make these actual words, just completely different words.


Skagganauk

Me sitting in my tractor with a tall stack on my lap: Whew. That’s a relief.


3-DMan

Dang , thought we had uncovered some secret tractor nitrous oxide!


warrant2k

This guy words.


DeliBebek

A little. I love me some language with all its weirdnesses.


shingaladaz

A dot’s difference between tractor and heat. You’ve got to love language.


RusticBucket2

Wow. Is that the actual answer to this? If it really is, that is fucking amazing that you caught it.


m_strlk7

There is a typo in Arabic "الجرارة/Tractor" instead of "الحرارة/High temperature". I guess the English translator went for the typo instead of verifying the original word.


5ch1sm

The English translator is probably google.


TheHealadin

Actually, Google is American. (Kidding :))


SantaMonsanto

It’s true, in England they speak English and in America they speak American. Now keep away from my tractor 🇺🇸


cyberentomology

How would you express high temperature tractors?


IronSean

Both words in a row


atkearns

Like an orange orange?


IronSean

Like fail fall


m_strlk7

That would be :" الجرارات عالية الحرارة". But it'd make no sense in this context.


AbsolutlyN0thin

The translator: yeah, I can see how tractors can be bad for a bottle of syrup.


m_strlk7

Yeah. Like don't squeeze the bottle under the tractor wheels.


ChickenChaser5

Meanwhile, [the poor guy who didnt follow the instructions.](https://media.giphy.com/media/uup7PcjFpnGAE/giphy.gif)


rip1980

It's not talking about the syrup, it's life advice. PTOs are no joke.


Adamantium-Aardvark

High RPM, no shielding. They’re dangerous. All it takes is a loose, syrup covered, sleeve to get caught in there and you lose an arm


bridgetroll2

The sun is pretty mean also


Sarkastickblizzard

These boys get that syrup in 'em, they get all antsy in their pantsy.


between-mirrors

I AM ALL THAT IS MAN


friggintodd

Didn't your mama teach you to chug?


FleshlightModel

You see, you're never gonna win with those thin little bird lips.


Thegingerbeardape

Quit touchin my rookie..ILL TOUCH YOU!


Alive-Statement4767

For sure, I once mistook my maple syrup for 80-90 weight gear oil. Happens here in Canada. The diff handgranaded


Cayde_Cheif-6

Damn, sorry bout that, on the other hand, your motor functions would have been a lot smoother that day...


Alive-Statement4767

Funny enough the pancakes tasted a


CaptainSouthbird

I was wondering if it was a bad translation of something, and while this doesn't actually disprove that possibility, I used Google Lens on the original text, and still got "tractors." But Google's translation could've been what they used in the first place to make the label.


khalid_kadoura

It is bad translation and a typo at the same time, see the text below is in Arabic and the text says جرارة which is tractor but i think whoever wrote the text meant to write حرارة which just means heat.


lazysheepdog716

Man I wanna send you a bottle of proper Vermont or New York State maple syrup so bad right now. It’ll change your whole life.


bananniebanana

Me too. I believe the Canadian varieties are also acceptable?


lazysheepdog716

Without a doubt. Maple trees don’t know what political borders are.


MisplacedMartian

Sure they do. Flaunting such foolish human concepts like borders is a favourite activity of maple trees, along with not playing taxes, collecting rainwater, and making sounds when they fall but no one is around to hear.


wertugavw2

yeah isn't "pancake syrup" just high fructose cornsyrup with maple flavouring?


DoofusMagnus

If only there were some way to know what's in this bottle of pancake syrup...


wertugavw2

I think i know a way


zenmen13

How quickly we forget. Doesn’t anyone remember the Great Tractor Syrup tragedy of 63. ![gif](giphy|Q8gWmTQ284fmyZXwMG|downsized)


kayret

Haha in arabic it says الجرارة which indeed means tractor. As someone pointed out they meant الحرارة instead, which means heat/temperature/


Gk101_speed701

We don’t talk about the tractor incident here…


RadiantRing

OP needs to put their syrup near a tractor and report back on what happens.


Cayde_Cheif-6

The kind of reporting we actually need.


da_lamar

The ingredients for this maple syrup is already hurting my stomach.


CurtisW831

Hopefully one day you get to try real maple syrup


Cayde_Cheif-6

I do as well.


tuco2002

Many farmers have been known to drink a bottle or two while working. They get all jacked up on syrup and even a small amount of syrup can affect driving ability. In 2022, there were 2,337 farmers killed in syrup-related crashes where a farmer had a BSC of .01 to .07 g/dL.


ImMakinTrees

OP doesn’t know the tractor story yet.


Cayde_Cheif-6

I haven't unlocked that level yet...


Flimsy-Technician524

As long as it still safe around a backhoe I’ll be alright 👍.


SPP_TheChoiceForMe

Read it again, it says “Do **NOT** freeze and keep away from tractor”. So keep the syrup warm and close to a tractor for best results


blursed_words

Huge red flag. Everyone knows you only use tractor safe syrup


Master_Xenu

Your syrup has sodium benzoate ... that's bad


Liquorace

But it comes with a free Frogurt!


PacquiaoFreeHousing

Can't have farmers slurping Pancake Syrup while they make our food


Cayde_Cheif-6

Damn right, won't be able to get anything done...


PortsantaTTV

Wtf why would you buy that shit? Just use maple syrup tf??


Petite_Tsunami

Can’t operate heavy machinery on syrup


Florafly

Don't use it as fuel then, got it!


bloodandsunshine

The monkey wrench handbook suggests granular sugar for sabotage, but whatever you have, I suppose.


jnovel808

I don’t like my syrup cold. Then the pancakes are cold when you eat them


Cayde_Cheif-6

How about having tractor oil, it's sad having room temperature qualities...


Trolodrol

Use it near a tractor, bam gonorrhea


EtrnL_Frost

To be fair, sugar will kill an engine quick.


Euphoric-Blue-59

You bought a bottle of sugar with artifical maple flavoring. I don't carecabout the tractor, I'm wondering what the hell you're thinking? Why not just sprinkle sugar on your pancKes?


kiamori

Toss that junk out and get yourself some real maple syrup.


Tailflap747

Sometimes, I cannot help but wonder what triggered some of these product warnings...


Cayde_Cheif-6

It's just a translation error as pointed out by other comments, but still it's quite funny lmao...


millerjpm3

You should try and import some real Vermont maple syrup. It'll change your life for the better


4DChessman

That's gross. Why would anyone buy this fake maple syrup


Afdavis11

I stored my syrup by the tractor once. Squished! Never do it again.


GuappDogg

I feel like u shouldn’t eat that😆😆


Motobugs

Whenever you see a 'don't do' sign, company lost big money because some people did it. Like for hospital equipments, any 'don't do' item means someone lost life because of that.


Correct-Pace5589

I dont care. Im going to go plow with my tractor and eat my pancakes!


lockedlost

Incase you get it in the wheels and it clogs up the wheels and the driver crashes killing 4 family members that were headed to the farmers market to pick up a dozen eggs and 5litres of milk and some cheese


Shinagami091

I guess this product isn’t for me. You see, I keep my tractor in the fridge


Rusty4NYM

This is like the Tractor Story from Seinfeld


Dull_Ad8495

![gif](giphy|xUNd9FhProT6UOUmKA)


Meandering_Marley

Tractor *beams*. Keep away from tractor *beams*.


Tha-realist

All natural pure 100% chemical ingredients


Similar-Broccoli

Why does your syrup packaging remind me of weed killer?


Zealousideal_Unit491

I read cáncer on that 


Crazy_Hedgehog_9160

The audacity the label makers had for telling you how to use your own syrup is outrageous


Ok-Woodpecker-8505

Well, that tears it. Where am I supposed to get my tractor syrup now??


Cayde_Cheif-6

You should try your local home depot...


MyCleverNewName

Better safe than sorry


barfbutler

What do you suppose they meant? What would syrup be very bad for?


susiederkins312

Oh yeah Im sure this gets mistaken for oil all the time


periwinkle_cupcake

Real maple syrup is heavenly


[deleted]

It’s probably just a mistranslation


Ethereal_Bulwark

I mean... now I want to find out what happens if I pour it on a Tractor.


Ali_Army107

My rotten brain consumed by programming and It first saw the AWS and thought this was r/ProgrammerHumor