bad translations

[em-clown]

http://rinkworks.com/said/language.shtml

there are tons more of these types of things here

From actual foreign menus:
"Our wines leave you nothing to hope for." -- From a menu in Switzerland.

"Cold shredded children and sea blubber in spicy sauce." -- From a menu in China.

"Children soup." -- From a menu in India.

"Deep Fried Fingers of my Lady." -- From a menu in India.

"Grilled lamp ribs." -- From a menu in Barcelona.

"Vegitational beef soap." -- From a menu in Brazil.

"'Boys style' little chickens." -- From a menu in Barcelona.

"Pork with fresh garbage." -- From a menu in Vietnam.

"Limpid red beet soup with cheesy dumplings in the form of a finger." -- From a menu in Poland.

"French fried ships." -- From a menu in Cairo.

"Fried friendship." -- From a menu in Nepal.

"Fried fishermen." -- From a menu in Japan.

"Gordon blue." -- From a menu in a Korean hotel.

"Cram Chowder." -- From a Chinese buffet in Canada.

"Rather burnt land slug." -- On a menu in Thailand.

"Chessburger." -- On a menu in Poland.

"Hod dok." -- On a menu in Poland.

"Turkey meat, salad, and sos." -- A creative spelling of "sauce" on a menu in Poland.

"Roat poik." -- From a menu in a Chinese Restaurant in the United States.

"Ckicken Velvet and Ckicken Noddle." -- The soups of the day listing, from a menu in a Chinese Restaurant in the United States.

"Ha Ha Fortune Cookies." -- From a menu in a Chinese Restaurant in the United States.

"Sweat from the trolley." -- From a menu in Europe.

"Salad a firm's own make." -- From a menu in Poland.

"Dreaded veal cutlet with potatoes in cream." -- From a menu in China.

"Strawberry crap." -- From a menu in Japan.

"Beef rashers beaten up in the country people's fashion." -- From a menu in Poland.

"Buttered saucepans and fried hormones." -- From a menu in Japan.

"Indonesian Nazi Goreng." -- From a menu in Hong Kong.

"Muscles Of Marines/Lobster Thermos." -- From a menu in Cairo.

"Toes with butter and jam." -- From a menu in Bali.

"Teppan Yaki - Before Your Cooked Right Eyes." -- From a menu in Japan.

"Soon Go Fatt" -- The name of a Chinese Restaurant in Kuala Lumpur.


thought you'd all enjoy a good laugh

[opiate]

Some American terms mean different things in other country's. Example, Brittish call soccer, soccer and we call it football.

I think it's kinda silly to even waste time looking at crap like this, but all is well. <IMG SRC="smilies/biggrin.gif" border="0">

[EvilKlown]

hmmm......

All your base are belong to us.

[ßracius]

LOL

[WebHead]

Mike Tyson might be interested in the dish that's serving children.

[Mr_Miyagi]

Originally posted by EvilKlown:
<STRONG>hmmm......

All your base are belong to us.</STRONG>

HUH????????????????????

[Mr_Miyagi]

Originally posted by 6DöG9:
<STRONG>Mike Tyson might be interested in the dish that's serving children.</STRONG>

he just likes "ears";

like me, cannot eat a whole one (child, that is)!!! <IMG SRC="smilies/wink.gif" border="0"> <IMG SRC="smilies/wink.gif" border="0">

[DaOnly123Kid]

i'll take one of everything <IMG SRC="smilies/biggrin.gif" border="0">

[Stalemate]

Freakin' hilarious!

Can't get enough of this stuff.

"All your base are belong to us", indeed <IMG SRC="smilies/biggrin.gif" border="0">

[jmani]

my personal favorite...

In a chinese dialect, I cant remember which one, but Coke-a-Colla translates to...

Bite the wax tadpole.

sounds fun huh?

[Jeff the Brit]

I liked the (probably apocryphal) tale of how the Pepsi slogan "Come alive with Pepsi" was translated into Chinese as "Pepsi will bring your ancestors back from the dead".

[The Tilb]

My personal fave was In the film The Lion King there was a charicter called pumba the warthog, which when translated from Swaheli means "secreation of the foreskin"

I think disney should have looked into that one a bit more......

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[http://forums.windrivers.com/cgi-bin/forum1/noncgi]

http://www.engrish.com/ is another good one.

The "No Smorking in Building" sign is one of my favorites.

And http://www.engrish.com/images/recent...ies/DANGER.jpg has to be one of the best warning stickers I've ever seen.

[RaFaD]

Have you evere hered about this one?? <IMG SRC="smilies/biggrin.gif" border="0">
I don't know who are those f**** guys at Miami that translate to spanish american tv programs before sending'em to south america...
Well, while I was living in argentina there was this Discovery program about dinosaurs called "paleoworld" paleo- comes for "paleontology" (study of the fossils and all that crap). Translated to spanish is should be just "paleomundo". Instead, they translated it this way: "Mundo Paleolitico".
"Paleolitico" means "paleolithic". Palentology and paleolithic may sound similar but... the paleolithic is a part of the tool age, when the humans begun using stone-made knifes etc. It has nothing to do with DINOSAURS!! there are some millions of years between them, but those *******s put it on the title of the program so you could read "paleoworld" and see a dinosaur on your tv, while hearing "Mundo paleolitico" in spanish... pathetic <IMG SRC="smilies/mad.gif" border="0">

[Wayward Clam]

When I was in Toronto, my family and I went to a Greek/Cantonese restaurant (Yeah, I know, WTF???) with a RATHER badly spelled menu. One of the drinks they were advertising was a "Diet Cocke".

My sister ordered one. <IMG SRC="smilies/biggrin.gif" border="0">