Bad Translators - 15 Ridiculous Translations on Advertisements and Labels
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By Pictolic https://pictolic.com/article/bad-translators-15-ridiculous-translations-on-advertisements-and-labels.htmlVery often after reading the inscriptions on advertising posters or labels of foreign goods translated into Russian, you want to roll on the floor laughing. You can't help but think that our language is truly great, powerful and... insanely complex. A review of 15 meaningless translations made by foreigners will lift your spirits for the whole day.
1. Keep the suspense until the very end
An unknown but tasty Chinese substance.
2. "Liberated" pineapples
3. First of all - creativity
What a bathhouse is for a Russian is a crematorium for a foreigner.
4. Galoshes are served!
Unfinished translation.
5. Any whim for your money
6. Pimples-pimples
7. As is the business card, so will be the repair
I wonder what he's like - a cannibal janitor.
8. They wrote what they heard
9. Figure it out by trial and error
10. "Supernatural" translation
Sometimes it's better to leave things as they are.
11. If you don’t know the translation, transliteration is the solution
We decided not to bother with translation at all.
12. Exotic Cambodia was rechristened as familiar Bulgaria
The inscription on the label does not correspond to reality.
13. "Welcome" was translated as "Goodbye"
14. Probably only with an accordion
15. Unknown days of the week for foreigners
Russian words are rewritten with English letters.
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