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Tasty McDonald's customer

March 15, 2023 @ 1:40 pm· Filed by under Lost in translation

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The reality of Happiness is Bitterness

March 9, 2023 @ 2:55 pm· Filed by under Lost in translation, Orthography

From Kiewwoo Goh:

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Anti-collision particle physics

March 6, 2023 @ 8:13 pm· Filed by under Language and science, Lost in translation

From the Temu website.

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A crook that protects your belongings

February 22, 2023 @ 8:30 pm· Filed by under Lost in translation

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Do not major in the changing room

February 22, 2023 @ 7:56 pm· Filed by under Lost in translation

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"May your satisfaction sincerely aroused by me"

February 16, 2023 @ 9:24 pm· Filed by under Lost in translation

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Bloopers and boners

February 2, 2023 @ 11:52 pm· Filed by under Lost in translation

The following mistranslations have been drawn from this collection:

"50 Times Signs Were So Hilariously Translated, People Just Had To Share Them Online", Liucija Adomaite and Justinas Keturka, Bored Panda (about a week ago)

Of the fifty items collected here, I've already dealt with more than half of them in other posts, and another portion are too lame to worry about.

Here goes:

Forgot to turn on the Spanish translator.

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Unususual Original

February 2, 2023 @ 1:56 pm· Filed by under Language and culture, Language and religion, Lost in translation, Spelling

From the Facebook account of Mei Han:

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Special womem

January 19, 2023 @ 8:41 am· Filed by under Gender, Lost in translation, Transcription

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Please do not anything

January 16, 2023 @ 1:17 pm· Filed by under Lost in translation, Multilingualism, Signs

Enigmatic East Asian sign:

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Glat perch and medicare yam

December 19, 2022 @ 2:17 pm· Filed by under Language and animals, Language and biology, Lost in translation, Names

Glat perch

Label in a Chinese fish market:

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Crap Lolly Pop

November 21, 2022 @ 7:24 am· Filed by under Lost in translation

Ambarish Sridharanarayanan sent in this image of a restaurant menu from Chennai:

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Steam Children with Chili Sauce

November 11, 2022 @ 9:01 pm· Filed by under Language and food, Lost in translation

Looks like this one might have to be outlawed:

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