Online translation is free and easy. However, its results can make those with the best intentions look silly. We've come across some funny ones over the years but this one gets a special mention.
The Canadian Amputee Golf Association is thanking its PROUD sponsors.
Enter PROUD in Google translate (which many use to translate text, webpages and documents) and you get FIERS. That's what is usually used as the translation as in FIERS COMMANDITAIRES.
Google translates also gives you options. The first is ORGUEILLEUX. Perhaps the CAGA folks thought is sounded nicer so they used it instead of the more common FIERS. Here's a subtlety that's lost on Google and most translation software: ORGUEILLEUX means conceited, vain or snooty.
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