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I enjoy how Chrome asks me if I want to auto translate from German to English. Where did it get German from? It's French!

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Probably from the "Content-Language: de" header

Ok but that makes even less sense

According to Wikipedia [0] the headquarters of IERS (International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service) is in Frankfurt, Germany (contact information on their website [1] has an address in Frankfurt too). The web server hosting the linked file also contains German text in its error page:

> Dieser URL wird nicht beantwortet. Bitte wenden Sie sich mit Ihrer Anfrage an das Bundesamt fuer Kartographie und Geodaesie.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Earth_Rotation_a...

[1] https://www.iers.org

It's a mix of french and english... so it's german.

A mix of English and French is just called... English

Frenglish

Franglais?

This book would probably disagree :-) https://www.fnac.com/a19325120/Bernard-Cerquiglini-La-langue...

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