They spent all their budget on...
Burtzy
Loc: Bronx N.Y. & Simi Valley, CA
The company (in, I presume China) spent their whole budget on the photo but should have included a few more dollars for a good translator.
The really “funny” part is that a lot of people will see nothing wrong with this😳
DirtFarmer
Loc: Escaped from the NYC area, back to MA
Translation is an opportunity for mirth in lots of ways.
An early translation program took "The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak" and transmogrified it to "The whiskey is good but the meat has gone bad".
Be weary of bad syntax errors. That usually means a Chinese company. If they don't care about syntax errors, think about how much they care about their products and you.
Ah-Sooooo... You need lead the retters in the words, then you get it light.
2 wongs don't make a white
In December 1977, President Jimmy Carter gave a speech in Poland. The problem stemmed from Carter's Polish translator, Steven Seymour, a freelance linguist who was hired by the State Department for $150 a day. Although an accomplished and respected translator of written Polish, Seymour turned out to be less-than-apt with the spoken word. During his speech, Carter said he'd come to learn about the Polish people's desires for the future—meaning their political and economic desires. During the translation, however, Seymour suggested the president was instead interested in the Poles' carnal lusts. Oops!
DirtFarmer wrote:
Translation is an opportunity for mirth in lots of ways.
An early translation program took "The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak" and transmogrified it to "The whiskey is good but the meat has gone bad".
Then there was a Russian translation of "out of sight, out of mind." It became blind and insane.
BBurns
Loc: South Bay, California
dpfoto wrote:
Ah-Sooooo... You need lead the retters in the words, then you get it light.
But, first, you must install " 4 Penright Battlies!"
jimward
Loc: Perth, Western Australia
KoniOmegaflex wrote:
Then there was a Russian translation of "out of sight, out of mind." It became blind and insane.
Hi, Koni What's the story behind the T11 in your avatar?
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