We just found an unopened foot massager we bought off Amazon years ago. Way before we decided to avoid BozoCorp wherever possible. The manual is something else!

#Chinglish #TranslationFail #LostInTranslation #BadTranslation #Engrish

Hank in Breaking Bad:
"It is like Whack-A-mole."

Swedish subtitle:
"It is like guacamole."

#translation #breakingbad #badtranslation

"This year you don't have to prepare so many cigarettes." #quotes #esoteric #goodtranslation #badtranslation
Götter wie wir? #badtranslation

Nuh-uh, it is so translated that way! How dare ya' insult my French! Er... Google Translate's French, more accurately.

(Art sampled from "Harley Quinn" Vol. 4 #34 by Tini Howard, Sweeney Boo, Steve Wands, Arianna Turturro, Jessica Berbey, Ben Abernathy, and James Reid. Edits: Altered dialogue and captions in really badly translated French.)

#comics #harleyquinn #french #badtranslation

"This year you don't have to prepare so many cigarettes." #quotes #esoteric
#goodtranslation #badtranslation
it was said – haiQu fOO

Thank goodness! No risk of the dreaded Bread King appearing! Lord of Loaves, Destroyer of Worlds. #badtranslation #badtranslations

Tell me without telling me you've used machine translation for your German website. 🫠

- A mix of formal and informal address.
- Literally translated copy.
- Awkward sentence using "guarantee"... twice.

#xl8 #MarketingTranslation #MarketingTranslator #l10n #BadTranslation

Why relying on translation and not on context is the wrong way to learn a language, episode 2684259986.

Me: Student, what does "vacant" mean?
Student: Uh... Sky?

This happened yesterday. I did laugh. I usually try not to laugh at my students, but it just came out, I couldn't control it.

#EnglishInJapan #Education #EnglishTeaching #BadTranslation