Translation error

Jul 06

Translation error

Written by Buxi on Sunday, July 6th, 2008 at 6:52 pm
Filed under:aside, culture | Tags:language, photo, translation
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The danger of relying on automated translation (and why Fool’s Mountain is better):

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28 Responses to “Translation error”

caoshiren Says:
July 6th, 2008 at 10:29 pm
This is funny.
Liuzhou Laowai Says:
July 7th, 2008 at 6:14 am
A credit would have been nice.
Buxi Says:
July 7th, 2008 at 6:16 am
@Liuzhou Laowai,

Is that yours? I came across it on MITBBS as an attachment to a post, no link.
Ha Says:
July 7th, 2008 at 10:46 am
Well, maybe they can touch up the sign, and call it “Food server”.
Samfu Says:
July 7th, 2008 at 12:24 pm
About credits, I can help you : IT’S MINE !!! I first posted it on facebook, then people apparently spread it around.
Taken on a stop along Beijing-Taiyuan expressway in June 2008.

And, oh, yes, that’s 50 bucks to use it. Need any additional info?
yo Says:
July 7th, 2008 at 2:30 pm
Excellent, and very true. Buxi, you guys should market out your site if you are getting the traffic. A couple of ads here and there to get some money on the side.
Buxi Says:
July 7th, 2008 at 2:53 pm
Small world, thanks Samfu!

I’m pretty sure Samfu is joking. But then again.. these are entrepreneurial days. Worst case, I’ll have to go into paint and draw my own artistic interpretation of the above image. 🙂

As far as ads… I don’t think anyone will thank us for it! And if money was the goal, I’d just stop blogging and get more productive at work. 🙂
Opersai Says:
July 8th, 2008 at 9:54 pm
…. I didn’t get it. How did restaurant got translated into “translation server error”?
Coyoty Says:
July 9th, 2008 at 6:26 am
I would guess someone was trying to translate online, and the translator had a glitch, and the someone thought the error message was the translation.
Opersai Says:
July 9th, 2008 at 7:07 pm
@Coyoty

Thanks for the explanation. That’s probably what happened.
Thue Says:
July 16th, 2008 at 7:28 am
Samfu: How about donating the picture to Wikipedia under for example a Creativ Commons attributions licence? It would be great to have the picture at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engrish
vanti Says:
August 7th, 2008 at 9:34 pm
@Samfu Im pretty sure that was a joke since if you posted it on facebook… well then you gave away the copyright..
kobsev Says:
November 20th, 2008 at 4:39 am
hahaha
Woah Says:
December 4th, 2008 at 9:09 am
No joke, this is my friends families restaurant. They were translating English to Chinese and this came up for their restaurant. I didn’t think it was this popular!
cwxwwwxwwxwx Says:
December 23rd, 2008 at 1:18 am
well, hi admin adn people nice forum indeed. how’s life? hope it’s introduce branch 😉
;) Says:
March 26th, 2009 at 10:42 am
wow, this is epic!!
Jodie Says:
December 16th, 2010 at 11:39 am
Hilarious. 🙂 Something similar happened here in the UK too. In Wales, all road signs have to be in both English and Welsh and Swansea Council sent the work to be translated. They got an Out of Office reply in Welsh. And you can guess what happened next! In their defence, they weren’t a professional translation agency, so they weren’t to know. But I must admit, it would have struck me as slightly odd that the translator hadn’t emailed back in both English and Welsh. Especially if the request was made in English.
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April 29th, 2013 at 7:03 pm
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