Because it will be a while yet before English-to-French translators can hang up their dictionaries and hand the work over to Google Translate.
With thanks to the University of Pennsylvania’s Language Log.
Because it will be a while yet before English-to-French translators can hang up their dictionaries and hand the work over to Google Translate.
With thanks to the University of Pennsylvania’s Language Log.
… and, in case a little explanation is required, the product is an ELECTRICally heated MUG for use in your AUTOmobile (the slightly odd English formulation maybe suggests it was written by someone who is a native speaker of neither French nor English). The French version back-translates to English as ‘automatic electric mugging’.