When Translations go Wrong

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When Translations go Wrong

07-19-2006, 12:20 PM

Outside a dress shop, <place w:st="on" />Hong Kong</place />: Ladies have fits upstairs.An advertisement by a <place w:st="on" />Hong Kong</place /> dentist: Teeth extracted by the latest methodists.In a <place w:st="on" /><city w:st="on" />Tokyo</city /></place /> shop: Our nylons cost more than common, but you'll find they are the best in the long run.Information booklet about using a hotel air conditioner, <place w:st="on" /><country-region w:st="on" />Japan</country-region /></place />: Cooles and heates: if you want just condition of warm air in your room, please control yourself.Car rental brochure, <place w:st="on" /><city w:st="on" />Tokyo</city /></place />: When passenger of foot heave in sight, tootle the horn. Trumpet him melodiously at first, but if he still obstacles your passage then tootle him with vigor.Detour sign in <place w:st="on" /><city w:st="on" />Kyushi</city />, <country-region w:st="on" />Japan</country-region /></place />: Stop. Drive sideways.Dry cleaner's, <place w:st="on" /><city w:st="on" />Bangkok</city /></place />: Drop your trousers here for the best results.Hotel catering to skiers, <place w:st="on" /><country-region w:st="on" />Austria</country-region /></place />: Not to perambulate the corridors in the hours of repose in the boots of ascension.Hotel, <place w:st="on" /><city w:st="on" />Vienna</city /></place />: Case of fire, do your utmost to alarm the hotel porter.Hotel in <country-region w:st="on" /><place w:st="on" />Romania</place /></country-region />: Posters on all toilets Higiene gurarantee.Translation Bureau in <place w:st="on" /><city w:st="on" />Bucharest</city /></place />, big billboard: Legalised Translations!Hotel elevator, Paris: Please leave your values at the front desk.Hotel, <place w:st="on" /><city w:st="on" />Athens</city /></place />: Visitors are expected to complain at the office between the hours of 9 and 11 am daily.Tailor shop, <place w:st="on" />Rhodes</place />: Order your summers suit. Because is big rush, we will execute customers in strict rotation.Hotel brochure, <place w:st="on" /><country-region w:st="on" />Italy</country-region /></place />: This hotel is renowned for its peace and solitude. In fact, crowds from all over the world flock here to enjoy its solitude.Hotel lobby, <place w:st="on" /><city w:st="on" />Bucharest</city /></place />: The lift is being fixed for the next day. During that time we regret that you will be unbearable.In the lobby of a <place w:st="on" /><city w:st="on" />Moscow</city /></place /> hotel across from a Russian Orthodox monastery: You are welcome to visit the cemetery where famous russian and soviet composers, artists, and writers are buried daily except thursday.From the "Soviet Weekly": There will be a <place w:st="on" /><city w:st="on" />Moscow</city /></place /> exhibition of arts by 15,000 soviet republic painters and sculptors. These were executed over the past two years.Airline ticket office, <place w:st="on" /><city w:st="on" />Copenhagen</city /></place />: We take your bags and send them in all directions.<place w:st="on" /><city w:st="on" />Cocktail lounge</city />, <country-region w:st="on" />Norway</country-region /></place />: Ladies are requested not to have children in the bar.Hotel elevator, <place w:st="on" /><city w:st="on" />Belgrade</city /></place />: To move the cabin, push button for wishing floor. If the cabin should enter more persons, each one should press a number of wishing floor. Driving is then going alphabetically by national order.In a Swiss mountain inn: Special today - no ice-cream.French Tourism Brochure:Ø Under the heading " To see Calais" it refers to : The Jacquard Statue - " Situated before the municipal theatre, it's recalling the inventor of system for the reproduce a decorative design in a texture."Ø The Lighthouse - "It's counting 270 steps and it's taking her rays on night at <metricconverter w:st="on" ProductID="0.03 miles" />0.03 miles</metricconverter /> above of sea's gauge."Ø The Fisherman's District - "Called courgain maritime picturesquer, where it's agreable of to meet, in this populated district fishers ».Ø The Museum - "Made close to Richelieu's garden. Collections are visited every day except tuesday."Ø The French Memory's Moment - "Situated before of the town hall, it's the worked of architect Ghesquier - maugendre, statutory, elevated for Sidi Brahim, Dutertre Captain, soldiers of 1870 - 1871 and colonials expositions memories."Ø The Six Burgess Moment - " Calis is first all six burgess city, these notables, that made the lives sacrifice for to save those beseiged citizens."Ø The Watching Towers - " In wartime, it's serving of loockout's service charged of to watch enemy motion and in peacetime, of to inform firemans in case of fire and to show fire's direction.Ø The Notre Dame Church - "Demolished by last bombardements, these origins goes back at XIII century; finished under the english occupation; it's during of reconstruction and can't still to realize beauty of that architecture."Ø The Pluviose's Moment - "Erected on beach's avenue for to call submarine that sea's be buried before the Calais port in 1910, wen the opportunitie of fearless driving that made to passs under the regular liner."Ø Citadel - " French crowed for always Calais citadel. In 166 (sic), place's gouvernors of official residence, is attentive care of french's sovereigns, because of privilegied geographic position."Ø The Rescuer's Moment - "Situated in the Colme quay at paradis basin, it commemorate heroism recuer's Calais."Ø The Louis XVIII Collumn - "Face at the chamber of commerce, it's commemorate king's deplacement at to Calais, after Napoleon's fall in april 1814.".<a href="http://www.bostico.co.uk/other/funny-translations.htm"> http://www.bostico.co.uk/other/funny-translations.htm</a>

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07-07-2008, 07:43 PM

_MD_RE: When Translations go Wrong

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09-17-2008, 11:14 PM

_MD_RE: When Translations go Wrong

<h1 align="center">yeh that's a good lesson for us <img alt=" " src="http://www.wataonline.net/site/uploads/smil3dbd4e4c2e742.gif" /></h1>

من وجد الله فماذا فقد..ومن فقد الله فماذا وجد ;-)
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