http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/americas/04/...h.ap/index.html



"TORONTO, Ontario (AP) -- Doris Moore was shocked when her new couch was delivered to her Toronto home with a label that used a racial slur to describe the dark brown shade of the upholstery.



The situation was even more alarming for Moore because it was her 7-year-old daughter who pointed out "nigger brown" on the tag.



"My daughter saw the label and she knew the color brown, but didn't know what the other word meant. She asked, 'Mommy, what color is that?' I was stunned. I didn't know what to say. I never thought that's how she'd learn of that word," Moore said.



The mother complained to the furniture store, which blamed the supplier, who pointed to a computer problem as the source of the derogatory label



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."

For some reason, that article reminded me of that monty python sketch with the Hungarian



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IN9mP2_1A-c

It's not entirely an offensive description, apparently nigger is a shade of brown - going my mother who tells me she had a pair of nigger brown trousers back in the day! Fair enough it's not a used term nowadays for obvious reasons but there's no need to get your knickers in a twist over that?

negro = black in espainol

im not going to touch this thread with a dark colored 10ft stick.....



im white so if i make a joke it would just be racist... https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub..._DIR#>/dry.gif







all im saying is that hershey needs to pick that up and turn it into a candy bar...



i could see the slogan allready "ive got a hankerin' for that jungle flavor"

They must have been using the old Don Imus Edition of the software.