Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Lost in translation

This is just too hilarious not to share.

(From Atlantic Monthly)
I'm not sure how this happened, but I assume some genius took someone's instruction to have displayed "diesel fuel in Arbic/nosmoking in Arabic" (misspellings and all) too literally instead of translating "diesel fuel" and "no smoking" into Arabic.

This is the article that I found this from, by James Fallows. He's quite the healthy traveler, and is considered an expert on China.

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