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Post by GitteK on Aug 9, 2008 6:30:13 GMT -5
I had promised myself that I wouldn't start another off-topic, BUT this is simply too funny to let go. ;D Not a word about China  ..... but their English translations on street signs simply ROCK ! If you need a good laugh, go knock yourselves out. Click for a astonishing lesson in CHINGLISHHere are some examples (I am crazy about the first. I can just imagine that clever little chinaman at the keyboard, thinking he got himself an AOK perfect translation !)    And for more craziness, here are some Engrish translations (as this special language appears to be called) on signs in other countries. Click for MORE ENGRISH |
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Post by kittyhead on Aug 9, 2008 7:59:07 GMT -5
those are pretty funny! when my friends & i went to china almost 3 years ago, we saw so many of those signs... we thought that we should stay behind and work as sign fixers! and the stuff on packaged goods was just as good... did you know if you used the pearl cream, it'll make your skin "jadey"? LOL
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Post by GitteK on Aug 9, 2008 8:11:11 GMT -5
kitty - and this cream spotted on your bathroom shelf will make the S/O look reaaallly sad-faced.......   |
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Post by Anne on Aug 9, 2008 8:13:19 GMT -5
Gitte, this is so funny !!!
My favourite is the fourth one on your second link, "I hate all of you" ;D ...
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Post by chicchantal on Aug 9, 2008 10:41:05 GMT -5
I like the Japanese ones too. You know the words written by someone who hasn't quite grasped how English syntax works (along with many people who speak English as a first language). Not that I should talk cos I can't speak a word of Japanese.
Have you heard the classic, written by a computer in the '60s?
When fed the sentence 'Time flies like an arrow' it came back with 'Fruit flies like a banana'. I suspect this is apocryphal.
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Post by kittyhead on Aug 9, 2008 10:43:09 GMT -5
OMG Gitte that cream is hilarious!! Well here's something I picked up at one of the hotels where we stayed. It's some sort of bath soak, but the back of it is just a hoot... if you can get thru all of the wordiness! Now I'm sorry I didn't steal from another hotel the little instruction book on how to properly use condoms... which were provided for free. makes me wonder what kind of hotel that is now!!  Front  back  |
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Post by chicchantal on Aug 9, 2008 10:45:10 GMT -5
You mean the 15 yen bag isn't the lady in the picture?
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Post by Becky (Berkeleytravelers) on Aug 9, 2008 12:42:14 GMT -5
CC - Definitely apocryphal, it was one of our favorite jokes when I was a kid (along with "be alert - the world needs more lerts").
I would be interested sometime to know how many attempts to translate English to other languages go similarly wrong (remember the Chevy Nova, which had to be renamed in Spanish speaking countries because "no va" means "doesn't go"?)
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Post by chicchantal on Aug 10, 2008 7:58:27 GMT -5
To say nothing of the Rolls Royce Silver Mist which had to be renamed for the German market because of what Mist means in German. Look it up. I'm not going to lower the tone. Although why should I stop now? Sh . . .
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Post by Ellen on Aug 10, 2008 13:41:10 GMT -5
Oh Gitte, you have made me laugh, thank you so much for this post.
I was browsing the many Chinglish pages , and was laughing out loud, so much so hubby came in to see what was amusing me so much. Needless to say he joined in.
Made me smile today anyway.
Thank you.
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Post by framboiseetrose on Aug 12, 2008 17:52:14 GMT -5
THIS IS JUST TOO FUNNY!!!!!
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Post by andi on Aug 27, 2008 2:54:56 GMT -5
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..... but their English translations on street signs simply ROCK ! If you need a good laugh, go knock yourselves out. Click for a astonishing lesson in CHINGLISH
hahahha