Lost in Translation

“I found something very funny on my son's friends blog. The guy is in Xian, China - they met while my son was staying in Xian. Go to the December 20th entry and the menu translations. Someone used a very literal auto-translation?

http://www.metanoiac.com/archives/2004/12/eclectic_chingl.html”

“It's a great blog - worth exploring just for its glimpse of life in a large inland Chinese city.

http://www.metanoiac.com/
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“hahahaha, I looked at the image. too funny. Blogging is cool, i'll check it out.”

“LOL!

It should say "dry"? That still doesn't make much sense.”

“eeeeek, i saw the "F" word!”

“Please do vote for this guys blog at the following page:

http://pub2.bravenet.com/vote/vote.php?usernum=131619791&cpv=2

I do think it's worthy, and he's my son's buddy.
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“I'm sure there's a thread somewhere about labels on products, but this will work.

I'm not sure where this stuff comes from but I just bought some super glue yesterday, and nothing written on it makes any sense to me.

"Give a slight moisture onto the wild surfaces when difficult to bond"

"Whem clogged at the nozzle tim, on next use. CUT THE EXTENDER NOZZLE.and tightly cap with one of the suitable holes"

Those were the most obvious, but I found it quite amuzing to read all of the instructions - everything was just a little bit off. Don't they have people to translate this stuff for them, or do they just throw the instructions into one of them internet translators, paste that onto the package and sell it to us...”

“LOL bitpusher - yeah lets all chip in to send #69 to some of our "favorite" troll masters”

“Just buy American, Simer. Or at least in our hemisphere.”

“I don't have much of a choice in what I buy - whatever is on the shelves at Pamida is what I have to choose from.”

“I would have never made that association - I may never look at my mouse the same way again”

“Fah-ra-ra-ra-ra, ra-ra, ra-rah!”

“What was the point of your original post if you were just going to post the entire site on this thread anyway?”

“LOL! Some of those are excellent!”