stilty Posted January 10, 2008 Report Share Posted January 10, 2008 I was reading somewhere about a glitch in a computer program that translates Chinese characters to English and it is causing a lot of problems with signage. The government has set up a task force to clean up the signs before the Olympics. I guess the Chinese word "gan" means "dry" or "to do", but is being translated to another word that has a completely different meaning. Unless of course you fancy a nice "dry" (insert transalation here). :laugh: The Etiology and Elaboration of a Flagrant Mistranslation Make sure you scroll down through the whole article to see examples of Mistranslated signs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doc savage Posted January 10, 2008 Report Share Posted January 10, 2008 Nice. Reminded me of this site: Engrish.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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