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kramwest1 · 09-25-2009, 11:25 AM

YES!!!

YouTube - Chinese H1N1 Influenza (Swine Flu) Warning Video

last unicorn · 09-25-2009, 02:58 PM

This is so funny! I love things like that. There's a book that contains hundreds of bad translations into my language (which is German) and it comes out every year with a new edition, I've got all of them. The stuff is hilarious, especially the menus!

purpleoscar · 09-25-2009, 07:13 PM

purpleoscar · 09-29-2009, 10:02 AM

Those Goblin coordinates.

Vlad n U 2 · 09-30-2009, 06:28 AM

Fresh idiots are surely gonna be on my dinner plate tomorrow night!

purpleoscar · 10-07-2009, 06:30 PM

Some interesting restaurants around the world

**yolland** · 10-08-2009, 01:26 AM

^ Here in Hong Kong there are lots of restaurants whose pinyin names on their signs end in "Fat," which means prosperity in Cantonese and perhaps Mandarin as well. I'm not sure whether the tendency to not bother actually translating it more shows a lack of awareness how it might sound in English, or more just that because of the bilingual nature of the place, they take for granted that English speakers are accustomed enough to seeing pinyin to not think much about what if anything it sounds like in English.

ETA: Haven't seen the precise swine flu video kramwest saw, but there certainly are lots of swine flu public-awareness materials scattered about here, and like that video, many of them have what to Western eyes reads as a strangely, inappropriately cutesy aesthetic. Then again, if you've seen footage of US public-awareness materials from, say, the 1950s, a lot of that stuff seems strangely cutesy too, so perhaps it's something to do with a certain phase in the development of media culture where that's seen as a good way to rally the (not-yet-so-jaded?) public behind something.

On my computer back home in the US, I have a photo I took in Paris several years back of a German tour bus lumbering down the Champs-Elysees, proudly emblazoned in huge letters with the touring company's name, "FUCKER" (to be fair, there is an umlaut over the u). My inner ten-year-old still cracks up every time I look at that.

bono_212 · 10-08-2009, 01:37 AM

OH my God! We saw a building like that in Japan. I can't remember what it was called, but I know we kept referring to it as The Fucker Building.

Vlad n U 2 · 10-08-2009, 06:25 AM

It must be such a badass building.

finny fish · 10-09-2009, 02:50 AM

Not so much Engrish...well maybe it is. I kept on buying this water when we were in China

purpleoscar · 10-20-2009, 12:05 PM

More interesting places to eat:

Vlad n U 2 · 10-21-2009, 05:05 AM

- Haha! It's a place where it's legal to get drunk, and they're persuading you to do it!

- Chinese expletives.

- If I had to choose a deathbed, it would have to be somewhere in that restaurant.

purpleoscar · 02-02-2010, 08:15 AM

I thought you guys might like this one:

Poprocks coke
Welcome toparadlse
Backet case
When come around
She
Air (Iason Andremeva)
Good riddle ance
Stuck with me
Beautiful Day
Stuck inamoment you can’t get out of
Elevation
Walk on
K*ke

In alittle wile
Wild honely
Peace on bearth
New year’s day
Is till haven’t found what’s I’m looking for

mad1 · 02-02-2010, 08:34 AM

hhahahhahahhahahaa at the last few photos!

UberBeaver · 02-02-2010, 08:50 AM

I'm offended.

09-25-2009, 02:58 PM	#17
last unicorn ONE love, blood, life Premium Gold Member Join Date: May 2006 Location: in Bono's freckled arms ... Posts: 13,369 Local Time: 10:00 PM	This is so funny! I love things like that. There's a book that contains hundreds of bad translations into my language (which is German) and it comes out every year with a new edition, I've got all of them. The stuff is hilarious, especially the menus! __________________ we g e t to carry each other

10-08-2009, 01:26 AM	#22
yolland Forum Moderator Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 5,847 Local Time: 10:00 PM	^ Here in Hong Kong there are lots of restaurants whose pinyin names on their signs end in "Fat," which means prosperity in Cantonese and perhaps Mandarin as well. I'm not sure whether the tendency to not bother actually translating it more shows a lack of awareness how it might sound in English, or more just that because of the bilingual nature of the place, they take for granted that English speakers are accustomed enough to seeing pinyin to not think much about what if anything it sounds like in English. ETA: Haven't seen the precise swine flu video kramwest saw, but there certainly are lots of swine flu public-awareness materials scattered about here, and like that video, many of them have what to Western eyes reads as a strangely, inappropriately cutesy aesthetic. Then again, if you've seen footage of US public-awareness materials from, say, the 1950s, a lot of that stuff seems strangely cutesy too, so perhaps it's something to do with a certain phase in the development of media culture where that's seen as a good way to rally the (not-yet-so-jaded?) public behind something. On my computer back home in the US, I have a photo I took in Paris several years back of a German tour bus lumbering down the Champs-Elysees, proudly emblazoned in huge letters with the touring company's name, "FUCKER" (to be fair, there is an umlaut over the u). My inner ten-year-old still cracks up every time I look at that. __________________ yolland@interference.com μελετώ αποτυγχάνειν. -- Διογένης της Σινώπης

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