Lost in Translation
By admin • Aug 2nd, 2008 • Category: Headlines, Misc
Several years ago a student turned me on to Engrish. This site is devoted to translations gone way way bad. While Engrish is great, this morning I heard the best case of bad translation on the radio show Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me that I’ve ever heard:
Apparently, a Beijing restaurant looking to appeal to a broader audience during the Olympics decided to translate the restaurant’s name into English using some online tool. They plopped the name into a popular site, translated the name, purchased a huge sign with the new English translation and placed it above the restaurant. Can you guess the name?
If you guessed “Translate Server Error” then you my friend are right!