"Alain LaBonté " wrote:
> « Une police [de caractères] » simply means "a character font", as odd as it may look. In other contexts, « police » also means « cop » in French. Hard to catch for English-speakers, but true.
Doesn't it also have the sense of "[insurance] policy"? I remember a
machine-translation joke, something to the effect of the French version
of "You may wish to protect your jewelry with a special policy" came out
in the English version as "police special" --- which in the U.S. means
"the .38 caliber handgun traditionally carried by the police", quite
twisting the sense of the sentence!
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