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Going through my old U.K. image archive, and found this instruction booklet for a kiddy car I scanned for posterity. We're used to slightly ropey translations, but this still stands out in my mind as about the worst I've ever seen. Enjoy!

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I hope that's all perfectly clear!
 
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Here's a few mis-translations found on the internet,,,,

On a South African building:

Mental health prevention centre.

Sign at Mexican disco:
Members and non-members only.

A sign posted in Germany’s Black Forest:
It is strictly forbidden on our black forest camping site that people of different sex, for instance, men and women, live together in one tent unless they are married with each other for that purpose.

A laundry in Rome:
Ladies, leave your clothes here and spend the afternoon having a good time.

In a Czechoslovakian tourist agency:
Take one of our horse-driven city tours — we guarantee no miscarriages.

Advertisement for donkey rides in Thailand:
Would you like to ride on your own ass?

Sign over the information booth in a Beijing railroad station:
Question authority

In an Italian cemetery:
Persons are prohibited from picking flowers from any but their own graves.

On the faucet in a Finnish washroom:
To stop the drip, turn cock to right.

In a Bangkok temple:
It is forbidden to enter a woman even a foreigner if dressed as a man.

Instructions for a soap bubble gun:
While solution is not toxic it will not make child edible.

At a Budapest zoo:
Please do not feed the animals. If you have any suitable food, give it to the guard on duty.

A barbershop in Zanzibar, Tanzania:
Gentlemen’s throats cut with nice sharp razors.

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Going through my old U.K. image archive, and found this instruction booklet for a kiddy car I scanned for posterity. We're used to slightly ropey translations, but this still stands out in my mind as about the worst I've ever seen. Enjoy!
I understood the diagram about the fuse near the end.
 
In the manual for a ship's telephone exchange a relay contact was described as a

"Priceless jumping switch."

It was a bounce free ( mercury wetted switch )

Original text was in Polish ( manufacturer ) translated to an Indian language ( owner of the ship ) and then to English
 
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