Translations Going Wrong

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Recently on the website of a Swiss ski resort:

"The chairlift is currently out of action due to the hairdryer situation"

To their credit it was corrected pretty quickly.
 
I don't want to nitpick here, but shouldn't the title be ''Translations gone wrong?''
 
kikie
Japan: in a Tokyo hotel
Is forbidden to steal hotel towels please. If you are not a person to do such thing is please not to read notis.
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:lol:

"Don't read this unless you're someone who would do what it says not to."
 
TB
In its native language, sure, but it going wrong after it was translated to English.
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Or, if you will, "Many speech to be dishonorable from translate to other language please."
 
Let's say that the thread title is part of the thread about translations that "went wrongly".
 
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“The video rides an eyebrow ten cheese” would be my choice for title, just to confuse people.
 
Japan: In an information booklet about using a hotel air conditioner
Cooles and Heates: If you want just condition of warm in your room, please control yourself.
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:lol:
 
I like to make people laugh (not that I'm good at it, most people don't get my humor. They have to think about it too much before they get it. :ouch:), so here is another one.

Mexico: In an Acapulco hotel
The manager has personally passed all the water served here.
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Enemas here! Get'cha enemas!
 
kikie
Japan: In a Tokyo bar
Special cocktails for the ladies with nuts.
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See, that could be a highly accurate translation. Newhalfs aren't that rare in Japan. ;)
 
Here is a cute one

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Imari
See, that could be a highly accurate translation. Newhalfs aren't that rare in Japan. ;)
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Learned a new English word today. :lol:


Norway: In a Norwegian cocktail lounge
Ladies are requested not to have children in the bar.
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From now on I’m gonna tootle my horn. How can such an expression go unused?
 
kikie
Learned a new English word today. :lol:
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I'm not sure that word actually gets used in English, it's a Japanese word that happens to contain English words. :)

On the other hand, it's much less derogatory than "tranny" and much less clinical than "pre-op transsexual" so I quite like it.

W3HS
From now on I’m gonna tootle my horn. How can such an expression go unused?
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It's considered bad form to tootle one's own horn. ;)
 
Imari
I'm not sure that word actually gets used in English, it's a Japanese word that happens to contain English words. :)

On the other hand, it's much less derogatory than "tranny" and much less clinical than "pre-op transsexual" so I quite like it.
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I looked it up, I trusted the internet (:O), hence me thinking I learned a new English word.
 
I check a game mods site every day and there's a guy who uses the translator incorrectly, and I always laugh that how bad his comments are. :lol:

But I think it isn't allowed to post his comments here, because that is against the AUP.
 
If you feel bad, use automated English subtitles while watching certain youtube clips and you will feel good instantly. It is that funny.
 
How about this?

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Also I remember watching an interview with Kaz who mentoins a D...o with english subtitles on.
 
Poland On the menu of a hotel:
Salad a firm’s own make; limpid red beet soup with cheesy dumplings in the form of a finger; roasted duck let loose; beef rashers beaten up in the country people’s fashion.
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W3HS
From now on I’m gonna tootle my horn. How can such an expression go unused?
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It's just very archaic, tootling a horn stopped being a regular expression in the early 1900s :)
 
Russia from the Soviet Weekly:
There will be a Moscow Exhibition of Arts by 15,000 Soviet Republic painters and sculptors. These were executed over the past two years.
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