Smoking cessation
Joseph Williams sent in the following photograph of a Japanglish sign that he took on a ferry traveling to the famous Itsukushima Shrine (also called Miyajima) in Hiroshima:
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Joseph Williams sent in the following photograph of a Japanglish sign that he took on a ferry traveling to the famous Itsukushima Shrine (also called Miyajima) in Hiroshima:
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Sign on the front door at the Taitung County District Prosecutors Office in Taiwan (via Kerim Friedman):
This is from an article in Want China Times (4/21/15):
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We have just emerged from a discussion of how to refer to dog excrement on public notices: "Scoop the poop" (4/15/15). The same sort of uncertainty surrounds notices concerning public urination by humans. From a men's room in the West Beijing Railway Station:
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From a page at Chambers Wines about the VinItaly exhibition in Verona:
Caption: "Some translations are more successful than others".
But what, asks Francois Lang, is "Breath Clay" a (bad?) translation of?
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As Language Log readers are well aware, Jackie Chan recently became super famous for the amazing bounciness of his hair and the mystical syllable he proclaimed in self-admiration: "Duang " (3/1/15) and "More on 'duang'" (3/19). Now we find that he has a bus stop named after him:
Computerized translation fail at Sichuan Normal University campus bus stop pic.twitter.com/NA1Q5iI0Qr
— Austin Ramzy (@austinramzy) April 3, 2015
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A month ago, we studied the enigma of "Anti-mouth-bowls" (3/1/15). It was Jan Söhlke who had sent me a photograph of what were labeled "Anti-Mund-Schuessel" ("anti-mouth-bowl"). He mentioned that the same Viennese shop had other bowls with equally mystifying names and promised to go back and take pictures of them. Jan has now delivered on his promise by sending the following photographs:
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Via Jason Schrock on Twitter…
Hey @LanguageLog check it out pic.twitter.com/Hxh1ngD55y
— jason (@jason_schrock) April 2, 2015
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