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Reasons why you should use a “real” translator

By dearjanesample

instead of one of those online or software translators:

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70 Responses to “Reasons why you should use a “real” translator”

  1. Keachie Says:
    July 10, 2008 at 3:38 pm

    Truly Funny!

  2. Work At Home Business Opportunities Weblog | Beware “Automated” Translation Services Says:
    July 10, 2008 at 3:48 pm

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  3. Hayrichu » Error del servidor de traducción Says:
    July 10, 2008 at 4:46 pm

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  4. dearjanesample Says:
    July 11, 2008 at 7:39 am

    I love stuff like this, it totally makes your day!

  5. Juan de Dios Says:
    July 11, 2008 at 10:06 am

    According to our chinese trainee, the red signs mean RESTAURANT.

  6. Geek-Nation » Blog Archiv » “Translate server error” Says:
    July 16, 2008 at 6:48 am

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  7. buzu Says:
    July 17, 2008 at 2:36 am

    jajajajajajajajajajajajajajajajajajajajajajajajajajaja…. Is it clear??? or I need to laugh more?

  8. Anders Sandvig Says:
    July 17, 2008 at 2:54 am

    Maybe that’s just the name of the restaurant? ;)

  9. azharbindaud Says:
    July 17, 2008 at 3:06 am

    Its a CATCHY advertisement technique….

  10. Automatiken slår till - 3 | anvandbart.se Says:
    July 17, 2008 at 4:45 am

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  11. 史上最低の翻訳ミス | 秋元@ホワイトバンドって覚えてる? Says:
    July 18, 2008 at 9:32 pm

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  12. POC Says:
    July 19, 2008 at 8:43 am

    Toooooooo funny!

  13. momomom Says:
    July 19, 2008 at 9:25 am

    If you go to Chinese super market in U.S, I see tonz of package with Japanese character. They think of printing English and Japanese characters on packages is cool, but 95% are wrong. It’s so funny for us because I see their “effort” like above, such as struggling find a similar character, but it’s close.

  14. Mark Says:
    August 3, 2008 at 2:27 am

    And there’s a whole website for stuff like this, go to: http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Chocolate_Covered_SQL.aspx and scroll down until you find the list of ingredients on the bag. Notice something strange about that last ingredient?

  15. Moggy Says:
    August 3, 2008 at 3:58 am

    @momomom: Makes you think twice about all those kanji tattoos you see on people.

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    August 3, 2008 at 5:28 am

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  17. Anders Feder Says:
    August 3, 2008 at 6:56 am

    So is this real or a good photoshop job?

  18. Steve’s Space » Blog Archive » Must Try Harder… Says:
    August 3, 2008 at 7:01 am

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  19. Brian Says:
    August 3, 2008 at 12:22 pm

    Funny – read an article in the new york times about a famous tattoo artist in chinatown that got pissed at young white kids waning chinese characters when they had no respect for chinese culture. So this one white chick got a tattoo and her chinese friends laughed at her – turned out the tattoo said “chicken fried rice”

  20. Teiruman Says:
    August 4, 2008 at 4:32 am

    Have you seen this site?

    http://www.engrish.com/

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    August 4, 2008 at 5:07 am

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    August 4, 2008 at 11:03 am

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  23. holagatito Says:
    August 4, 2008 at 11:38 am

    Oh, there is a really funny website that has this kind of stuff: http://www.engrish.com

    It will crack you up.

    I always tease my Asian friends when they wear clothing from Japan or China with English writing – I’ve seen them wear things like this billboard’s text.

    On the flip side, I’m guilty of wearing many Asian-inspired shirts with symbols I don’t understand.

    I suppose we’ll have to be content with our cultures laughing at each other ;)

  24. gordsellar Says:
    August 4, 2008 at 1:36 pm

    @Moggy:

    There’s a website for hanzi (kanji) tattoos that are totally messed up!

    http://www.hanzismatter.com/

  25. squarebrackets Says:
    August 4, 2008 at 2:47 pm

    totally know what you mean, tried to use an online translator to translate a message i got from a friend, reaaaly didn’t work out for me, lol

    x

  26. tampaseo Says:
    August 4, 2008 at 5:54 pm

    I had a server error when I ate at Denny’s last week. I ordered waffles and she brought me pancakes.

    At least the sign was spelled correctly. Funny post.

  27. ManagingMagic (D.G.) Says:
    August 5, 2008 at 5:51 am

    This is now doing the rounds on the internet. Good stuff!

  28. FrankPr's World of Devices : Machine translations: use them with caution Says:
    August 5, 2008 at 7:17 am

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  31. John Says:
    August 5, 2008 at 10:33 pm

    Hi,
    I have lived in Beijing for about 2.5 years…
    and you can see some wacky English everywhere
    it’s great.

    I heard another story about a sign similar to this one

    Conversely, I want someone to walk through the US, and look at signs in Spanish, Chinese, or any other language, and see if they are messed up as some of the English printed in China…

    there’s a way to do it right…

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  34. david Says:
    August 6, 2008 at 5:30 pm

    Funny stuff… ^-^ I see so many examples of this on a daily basis, it’s actually starting to be normal to me.

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    August 6, 2008 at 5:31 pm

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  36. dearjanesample Says:
    August 7, 2008 at 7:47 am

    Bad translation is extremly amusing. I couldn’t imagine walking around all day and laughing at how things were mis-translated, everyone would think I was bloody crazy.

  37. Lucas Says:
    August 8, 2008 at 11:28 am

    Get used to it, welcome to the club and enjoy.

    French is my mother tongue and for years, especially in Canada, I’ve read hilarious, but completely hilarious surrealistic translations of this kind from English to French. I used to have a collection of them. I don’t collect them anymore. Made you roar with laughters, and still do. Those Chinese pearls are in the same family; thanks to incompetent, and somewhat pretentious code writers and the monoglotic isolation of those who confidently and naively rely on those “high tech” (LOL) translating devices (LOL again)… one inherits hours of output of unmitigated fun, never abated. Many English-speaking people discover that those automatic “translators” (sic), those phony pieces of software they relied so much on and for years, simply never worked. They never did. From any language to any language. Well, actually they work. But not the way they intended or pretended to… We Award fake no make and to create Miss Nude should the spot on charge of the free. No prisoners. Tristan Tzara.

    Lucas

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    August 9, 2008 at 2:22 am

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  41. danix Says:
    August 15, 2008 at 10:00 am

    Excelent!!
    Really funny.

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  45. Translate to Chinese dot com Says:
    September 3, 2008 at 3:23 pm

    Well, for chinese translations you can also look at: http://www.translate-to-chinese.com

  46. rudy Says:
    November 20, 2008 at 9:50 pm

    video will not load

  47. Henry Aguirre Says:
    December 6, 2008 at 8:23 pm

    I want to see the chicken fried rice tat

  48. اس ام اس عید نوروز پیامک عید نوروز Says:
    January 8, 2009 at 1:04 am

    thank you very much

  49. teehewsrek Says:
    March 3, 2009 at 4:31 pm

    Классная статья, кстати автору хочу предложить установить от яндекс.денег фишку на сайт “Дай рубль”. Я бы дал, так сказать на поддержание.

  50. EnjoyMedia Says:
    March 17, 2009 at 11:39 am

    Nice post.

  51. Houcine Says:
    March 21, 2009 at 11:12 am

    c’est vraiment n’importe quoi!!!

  52. Serjio Says:
    April 23, 2009 at 2:58 am

    Как можно связаться с автором блога для размещения постового у вас на сайте и сколько будет стоить?

  53. Daypenup Says:
    April 24, 2009 at 5:02 pm

    Ваш сайт в опере не очень то корректо показывается, а так все отлично! спасибки вам за умные мысли!

  54. axiormatat Says:
    April 25, 2009 at 6:12 pm

    Опубликовал на своем блоге вашу статью, и напечатол там конечно-же обратную ссылку на вас. Но вот зашел посмотреть поевился ли трекбек, а его нет…

  55. Orient Says:
    May 1, 2009 at 5:13 pm

    У вас RSS в кривой кодировке!

  56. faunnY Says:
    May 3, 2009 at 3:14 pm

    Извините если не туда, но как с админом сайта связаться?

  57. poussy Says:
    May 10, 2009 at 8:17 am

    большое спасибо!Взяла себе тоже-пригодится.

  58. anoppetak Says:
    May 10, 2009 at 1:29 pm

    Извините если не туда, но как с админом сайта связаться?

  59. Dooxorseve Says:
    May 13, 2009 at 5:33 pm

    Отличный пост, прочитав несколько статей на эту тему понял, что всё таки не посмотрел с другой стороны, а пост как-то очень заинтересовал.

  60. cernWrony Says:
    May 14, 2009 at 2:39 pm

    Суперский пост! Блог уже в ридере )

  61. Heettesefara Says:
    May 14, 2009 at 7:34 pm

    Спасибо. Просто спасибо, за красивые мысли вслух. В цитатник.

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    May 19, 2009 at 4:17 pm

    Очень занятная запись. Добавил Ваш сайт в избранное.

  63. Ogolev Says:
    May 23, 2009 at 10:57 am

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  64. geonmenihoigo Says:
    May 25, 2009 at 5:38 pm

    Позновательно!!!!

  65. секционные гаражные ворота Says:
    May 25, 2009 at 6:36 pm

    И как же это можно понять простому человеку?

  66. региональное продвижение сайта Says:
    May 25, 2009 at 9:43 pm

    И неужели это все так работает???

  67. мебель запорожье Says:
    May 26, 2009 at 1:29 am

    Скромность укрощает человека.

  68. вебмастеру Says:
    May 26, 2009 at 8:41 am

    Правда – изобретение маньяков: колет глаза и режет уши.

  69. букет Says:
    June 2, 2009 at 5:56 am

    Чувствуется у вас в блоге какой-то уют

  70. Мобильные открытки Says:
    June 5, 2009 at 3:43 am

    А мы тут win.com бaлуeмcя….

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