Funny translations

One of the things that I love the most about the English language is that the spellings don’t always match the sounds they’re supposed to represent. It always kept me on my toes and constantly kept me curious to explore the depths of the language. Quirks, oddities, warts, and all. Just like all of you, I’ve had hilarious slips of the tongue (or rather the fingers when I’m writing), creating some truly bizarre sentences.

In 2022, there were around 1.5 billion people worldwide who spoke English either natively or as a second language, according to Statista. Surpassing more than 1.1 billion Mandarin Chinese speakers, unsurprisingly, it comes as the most spoken language in the world.

These missed the mark.

One menu listing "temple explodes the chicken cube" I would dismiss as random Engrish. But two menus? Maybe this is a popular dish.

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Only the Chinese would write something like this. When I travelled around China I saw loads of daft signs, wish I photographed some of them

I think it's supposed to be jerk chicken VI ww 結料,猪内沫 注,经典川第,巴风味。 J川水泼辣鸡 Chicken rude and unreasonable / st &

1단계 하수 Don't worry 2단계 평민 I'm OK 3단계 중수 So So 4단계 고수 Hot 5단계 지존 Too hot 6단계 초인 Oh my god 7단계 겁 F---

If you’re running a business in a tourist-heavy country, having signage in English is a smart move. However, your smarts go out the window if the English translations you display turn into the wrong kind of funny jokes. We understand that not everyone knows the language well enough not to get lost in translation, but please—don't trust Google Translate to give you anything but a literal conversion of whatever you type in, turning your sign into a hilariously bad translation.

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