Translation error

Comments

1. caoshiren says

   July 6, 2008 at 10:29 pm

   This is funny.

2. Liuzhou Laowai says

   July 7, 2008 at 6:14 am

   A credit would have been nice.

3. Buxi says

   July 7, 2008 at 6:16 am

   @Liuzhou Laowai,

   Is that yours? I came across it on MITBBS as an attachment to a post, no link.

4. Ha says

   July 7, 2008 at 10:46 am

   Well, maybe they can touch up the sign, and call it “Food server”.

5. Samfu says

   July 7, 2008 at 12:24 pm

   About credits, I can help you : IT’S MINE !!! I first posted it on facebook, then people apparently spread it around.
   Taken on a stop along Beijing-Taiyuan expressway in June 2008.

   And, oh, yes, that’s 50 bucks to use it. Need any additional info?

6. yo says

   July 7, 2008 at 2:30 pm

   Excellent, and very true. Buxi, you guys should market out your site if you are getting the traffic. A couple of ads here and there to get some money on the side.

7. Buxi says

   July 7, 2008 at 2:53 pm

   Small world, thanks Samfu!

   I’m pretty sure Samfu is joking. But then again.. these are entrepreneurial days. Worst case, I’ll have to go into paint and draw my own artistic interpretation of the above image. 🙂

   As far as ads… I don’t think anyone will thank us for it! And if money was the goal, I’d just stop blogging and get more productive at work. 🙂

8. Opersai says

   July 8, 2008 at 9:54 pm

   …. I didn’t get it. How did restaurant got translated into “translation server error”?

9. Coyoty says

   July 9, 2008 at 6:26 am

   I would guess someone was trying to translate online, and the translator had a glitch, and the someone thought the error message was the translation.

10. Opersai says

    July 9, 2008 at 7:07 pm

    @Coyoty

    Thanks for the explanation. That’s probably what happened.

11. Thue says

    July 16, 2008 at 7:28 am

    Samfu: How about donating the picture to Wikipedia under for example a Creativ Commons attributions licence? It would be great to have the picture at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engrish

12. vanti says

    August 7, 2008 at 9:34 pm

    @Samfu Im pretty sure that was a joke since if you posted it on facebook… well then you gave away the copyright..

13. kobsev says

    November 20, 2008 at 4:39 am

    hahaha

14. Woah says

    December 4, 2008 at 9:09 am

    No joke, this is my friends families restaurant. They were translating English to Chinese and this came up for their restaurant. I didn’t think it was this popular!

15. cwxwwwxwwxwx says

    December 23, 2008 at 1:18 am

    well, hi admin adn people nice forum indeed. how’s life? hope it’s introduce branch 😉

16. ;) says

    March 26, 2009 at 10:42 am

    wow, this is epic!!