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49 Translation Fails That Gave Ordinary Signs A Very Unexpected Meaning
Have you ever read a sign in English and wondered who translated it? You know the words, but the sentence makes so little sense that you have to read it again to make sure you aren’t missing something. And the more you try to figure out what it’s supposed to say, the funnier it gets.
Here’s a collection of signs that lost the plot somewhere between one language and another. Some translations are so ridiculous you’ll wonder how they made it onto a sign in the first place, while others sound like accidental threats from someone who really has it out for you.
Get ready to laugh a lot and feel some serious secondhand embarrassment, because we are sure that these signs say absolutely nothing like what their creators intended.
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Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het 4 hours ago
This door has been a bad, bad door and deserves a good slamming.
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Pieter LeGrande 1 hour ago
Google Translate:- top sign - "Loving you was wrong, hoping it will always be wrong". bottom sign - "I cherish you like a precious jewel, and treat rice like saltwater weeds".
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Katrina Anderson 43 minutes ago
What was the happenstance to make it SO broken??? Huh huh huh? Curious minds wants to know…
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otiose (foxtrot delta tango) 3 hours ago
I like to mix my wonderful adjectives and boring nouns! Can't they bathe together?
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otiose (foxtrot delta tango) 3 hours ago
"I swear I slipped and fell into her v****a!" he said. "Díck first!"
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astheshadowsfall 3 hours ago
This is the story where a guy decided not to k**l his son because the voices in his head changed their mind. Then he found a ram in a bush to happily k**l instead. Such a wonderful religion.
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Rose the Cook 25 minutes ago
In a Chinese bank yesterday the same sign that was there 20 years ago never corrected. "Please control your money before leaving the counter". So that is what the security guard is for. to apprehend uncontrolled money.
Pieter LeGrande 1 hour ago
Use Google Translate on your phone - many of these are stranger even than the original sign.
Rose the Cook 25 minutes ago
In a Chinese bank yesterday the same sign that was there 20 years ago never corrected. "Please control your money before leaving the counter". So that is what the security guard is for. to apprehend uncontrolled money.
Pieter LeGrande 1 hour ago
Use Google Translate on your phone - many of these are stranger even than the original sign.
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