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10 Worst Translations Ever

Published on 1/1/2009 under Signs - 128,864 views
TAGS: Funny Translations, Bad Translations


From a Restaurant Menu in China.
We loved the "Living to explode the salt to frying the meat" and the "Old adopted mother fillet"
sent by reader Mandus, thank you!




Chinese translation of "Love"
by jisou




Wait, what?!
by creativebits




This is why translation websites shouldn't crash
by languagedoc




Now that was literal!
by lamboratory







Seen in Mexico
by ymimexico




by kwintessential




"When you are getting off with your lover"... real classy
by sampleaday




by Matt b




by kwintessential



Reader Contributions

Warning
by Jonathan on 8/26/2009
Found this a while back on the packaging of food from China
(Source)
Korean Menu; What??
by Soojin Oh on 8/4/2009
The people who translated this took the words literally, for instance;asshole-hole of donkey.
A chop on the hand?
by pchp7 on 7/18/2009
Please ask for a "chop on the hand".... ow? Found in Noah's Ark, Hong Kong
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