Translation is an art form. All different languages and cultures have varied ways of expressing themselves, and capturing that while making the text make sense is no mean feat. While online translation tools have come on from leaps and bounds since the days when young millennials used to try and cheat on their Spanish homework …
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15 Shirts With Hilarious Translation Errors
You’ve all heard the stories of English speakers getting tattoos of phrases in languages they don’t speak. They try to get something inspirational or beautiful tattooed on an extremely visible body part only to discover later that what their tattoo really said was either something random or humiliating. Either way, it was not what they …
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Weird And Overly Literal Translations That Are Both Poetic And Rude
Language is a wonderful and complex thing. One of the biggest testaments to how interesting humanity can be is that there are still more than 7,000 languages spoken in the world today. It’s a mind-boggling number to think about, but what can get even more confusing is when we try to communicate the meaning from …
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Literal Translations That Show How Effed Up Languages Are
Learning a language is hard enough as is without factoring in all of the colloquialisms that aren’t natural for a non-native speaker. The following posts make fun of translations from English into other languages, but let’s not forget how ridiculous English is; you gotta admit that «frog’s umbrella» makes a lot more sense than «mushroom»…