When I took the trip back to Guangzhou (Canton) and Beijing three years ago, my brother and I found much entertainment at the horrible, horrible English on Chinese signs... everything from packaging, to notices, to official signage in airports and hotels....
I recently found this youtube video that captures a lot of the hilarious signs that I saw in China, and I hope you all will enjoy it as much as I did...
Some awesome snippets include:
-"Cashier's Table" in Chinese being translated as "Accept the set of silver" in English
-Olino cookies made by the Pandemic Cookie company, which looks like the Chinese counterfeit version of Oreos...
-Soup Oprea
-Bang Pai bandages (which looks the Chinese counterfeit version of Bandaid brand bandages)
-And my personal favourite: the Office of Mayhem Evaluation
Oh Chinese Mandarin English.... I can imagine the 2008 Beijing Olympic blooper reels already and the sea of confused foriegners.....
Hope you enjoy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2N-MkJ5yuk
On behalf of Duke Rubin,
The Office of Mayhem Evaluation of Higherton Shire
Friday, July 13, 2007
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I love those translators. XD
I'm sure there'll be plenty of good stuff at the Olympics, too.
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