filed in China, Language, Photo Set on Sep.25, 2008
I’ve just spent two months in China, and despite Beijing’s best efforts to improve translations nation-wide, I’m happy to report that Chinglish is still everywhere. There’s nothing better than awesomely hilarious mistranslations! The opposite of Recycling Bathroom notice
Tags: China, Chinglish, Mandarin, mistranslation, translation
filed in Japan, Language, Photo on Jul.17, 2008
Japan has a lot of rules, and there are signs like this posted everywhere. I don’t know what half of these pictures even mean, but I have some guesses (from left to right, top to bottom): 1. No smoking. 2. No black dogs with white ears. 3. No calculating of the air speed velocity of […]
Tags: dynamite, humor, Japan, laws, rules, sign, translation