Honour medal of Foreign Affairs military personnel for acts of courage in favour of the French in time of war. Although still bestowed in wartime for courage, the modern award is now aimed at rewarding civil servants of the ministry for Foreign Affairs. Currently, the Honour medal of Foreign Affairs is intended to reward honorable service by French diplomats and civil servants stationed outside of France. It can also be awarded to French nationals and foreigners for exceptional service to France or that have accomplished acts of courage in assistance to French nationals either in peace or wartime. Military awards are often bestowed on order
Humour in translation not lost in the contexts provided. In machine translation from Chinese to English the phrase "Fuck the certain price of goods" has become proverbial for absurd machine mistranslations. That text was on a Chinese / English bilingual sign in a supermarket and should have read "Dry goods department". The Simplified Chinese character 干 (link: 干) can mean "do" and "dry" and "fuck". Lexical gaps concerns words or phrases with no direct translation in any given language. Humor, then, results from the interlocutor's inability to grasp the lexical gaps in target language and linguistic representations may either be over generalised or