It takes a native-speaker ...

[David A. Daniel]

WWW.engrish.com has a slew of these (though this one, I must say, is pretty
special...). Look under Chinglish.

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Arnold M. Zwicky
Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 2:52 PM
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Subject: Re: It takes a native-speaker ...


On Aug 7, 2008, at 10:38 AM, Wilson Gray wrote:

> From Slashdot:
>
> "Preparing for English-speaking visitors, a
> restaurant in China recently ran its name through an online
> translator,
> took the result, then purchased and mounted a large sign displaying
> the English version of its name: '_Translate Server Error_.' "
>
>
> This one sounds almost too good to be true!

see Language Log discussion (with photo):
>
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=301

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