Friday, July 18, 2008

needs some kind of QA

The chinese symbols say "Cafeteria".

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11 comments:

  1. Nothing To See Here , Move Along7/18/2008 6:37 AM

    Maybe it's referring to the food they serve

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  2. Anonymous7/18/2008 10:08 AM

    yes they do. what is your point?

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  3. Yishan7/18/2008 10:29 AM

    That looks like a perfectly cromulent translation to me.

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  4. Anonymous7/18/2008 11:34 AM

    This is a printed sign, right? The mind boggles. I love this photo.

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  5. Unknown7/18/2008 4:19 PM

    Great photo - did you take it?

    I think you're "When was the last time you got nailed?" photo from Taiwan was the absolute best "Lost in translation"

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  6. Christopher7/18/2008 10:46 PM

    You know maybe the online translation dictionary they were using had an error?

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  7. Anonymous7/19/2008 9:53 PM

    Christopher, that might be why N suggested QA.

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  8. Unknown7/20/2008 5:37 PM

    when the person translate the chinese word with google.com, the server got some problem, but he think that is the result...........

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  9. Anonymous7/21/2008 8:35 AM

    Can you say Photoshop?

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  10. Unknown7/21/2008 4:28 PM

    @stagehill

    What would have been even funnier for this blog is if "Niniane kicks ass" showed up next to the Cafeteria (Google that phrase to understand it...)

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  11. Anonymous10/31/2008 1:17 PM

    I've just been pointed to this, a Welsh example of the same error.

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/7702913.stm#

    source: http://newsbiscuit.com/board/32/47/0//you-just-can-t-write-this-stuff.html

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