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Funny translations into English

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Gorki Sat 18-May-13 23:46:48

A student of mine from Taiwan translated a recipe for me:
"boil the noodles until they are feeble-minded".( Some confusion with the word soft/limp.)We have a joke in our house now about "feeble-minded noodles".

Stansgran Sat 18-May-13 23:10:22

A hotel in Jordan had a helpful page of information for English guests headed Dear Gussets,
I kept a copy .not that I could even know how to get an English hotel menu translated into Arabic .

Eloethan Sat 18-May-13 23:02:39

When we were holidaying with friends in Kefalonia a few years ago, one of the items on the starters menu was

"Fried aborigines"

As you can imagine, this caused much hilarity.