Translations Going Wrong

[kikie]

Japan: in a Tokyo hotel
Is forbidden to steal hotel towels please. If you are not a person to do such thing is please not to read notis.

 

[Slapped]

Recently on the website of a Swiss ski resort:

"The chairlift is currently out of action due to the hairdryer situation"

To their credit it was corrected pretty quickly.

 

[Michael88]

I don't want to nitpick here, but shouldn't the title be ''Translations gone wrong?''

 

[TexRex]

Japan: in a Tokyo hotel
Is forbidden to steal hotel towels please. If you are not a person to do such thing is please not to read notis.

"Don't read this unless you're someone who would do what it says not to."

 

[TB]

I don't want to nitpick here, but shouldn't the title be ''Translations gone wrong?''

In its native language, sure, but it going wrong after it was translated to English.

 

[TexRex]

In its native language, sure, but it going wrong after it was translated to English.

Or, if you will, "Many speech to be dishonorable from translate to other language please."

 

[kikie]

Let's say that the thread title is part of the thread about translations that "went wrongly".

 

[W3H5]

“The video rides an eyebrow ten cheese” would be my choice for title, just to confuse people.

 

[kikie]

Japan: In a Tokyo bar
Special cocktails for the ladies with nuts.

 

[kikie]

Japan: In an information booklet about using a hotel air conditioner
Cooles and Heates: If you want just condition of warm in your room, please control yourself.

 

[kikie]

Japan: In a brochure of a car rental firm in Tokyo
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.

 

[TexRex]

 

[kikie]

I like to make people laugh (not that I'm good at it, most people don't get my humor. They have to think about it too much before they get it. ), so here is another one.

Mexico: In an Acapulco hotel
The manager has personally passed all the water served here.

 

[Silver Arrows]

Enemas here! Get'cha enemas!

 

[Obelisk]

That takes "taking the piss" to a whole new level.

 

[Imari]

Japan: In a Tokyo bar
Special cocktails for the ladies with nuts.

See, that could be a highly accurate translation. Newhalfs aren't that rare in Japan.

 

[eran0004]

Here is a cute one

 

[kikie]

See, that could be a highly accurate translation. Newhalfs aren't that rare in Japan.

Learned a new English word today.

Norway: In a Norwegian cocktail lounge
Ladies are requested not to have children in the bar.

 

[W3H5]

From now on I’m gonna tootle my horn. How can such an expression go unused?

 

[Imari]

Learned a new English word today.

I'm not sure that word actually gets used in English, it's a Japanese word that happens to contain English words.

On the other hand, it's much less derogatory than "tranny" and much less clinical than "pre-op transsexual" so I quite like it.

From now on I’m gonna tootle my horn. How can such an expression go unused?

It's considered bad form to tootle one's own horn.

 

[kikie]

I'm not sure that word actually gets used in English, it's a Japanese word that happens to contain English words.

On the other hand, it's much less derogatory than "tranny" and much less clinical than "pre-op transsexual" so I quite like it.

I looked it up, I trusted the internet (), hence me thinking I learned a new English word.

 

[TheNuvolari]

I check a game mods site every day and there's a guy who uses the translator incorrectly, and I always laugh that how bad his comments are.

But I think it isn't allowed to post his comments here, because that is against the AUP.

 

[kikie]

If you feel bad, use automated English subtitles while watching certain youtube clips and you will feel good instantly. It is that funny.

 

[TheNuvolari]

How about this?

Spoiler: Not sure if this is against the AUP

Also I remember watching an interview with Kaz who mentoins a D...o with english subtitles on.

 

[kikie]

Poland On the menu of a hotel:
Salad a firm’s own make; limpid red beet soup with cheesy dumplings in the form of a finger; roasted duck let loose; beef rashers beaten up in the country people’s fashion.

 

[TenEightyOne]

From now on I’m gonna tootle my horn. How can such an expression go unused?

It's just very archaic, tootling a horn stopped being a regular expression in the early 1900s

 

[polysmut]

It's just very archaic, tootling a horn stopped being a regular expression in the early 1900s

Another good archaic phrase is cock up your beaver.

 

[kikie]

Rhodes in a tailor shop:
Order your summers suit. Because is big rush we will execute customers in strict rotation.

 

[kikie]

Romania in a Bucharest hotel lobby:
The lift is being fixed for the next day. During that time we regret that you will be unbearable.

 

[kikie]

Russia from the Soviet Weekly:
There will be a Moscow Exhibition of Arts by 15,000 Soviet Republic painters and sculptors. These were executed over the past two years.