ViktoriaG Canada Local time: 02:33 Member (2005) English to French + ...
Mar 28, 2009
On this forum, there have been discussions of professional insurance and real-life stories of translators being responsible for messages lost in translation resulting in serious consequences.
I am wondering if you can tell us about stories of such disastrous consequences. I am not necessarily looking for stories of translators being sued for the consequences of mistranslation and stories where the disastrous consequences went as far as causing death. I am interested in stories in general where a mistranslation has caused misunderstandings between governments, delays in trials, people taking unnecessary risks, etc.
The translation workplace 
Bonus points if you can post links to newspaper stories and such. A typical example would be 
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