it's hilarious when it doesn't make sense |
 Apr 12 2005, 07:11 PM
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you know how a lot of stuff we own have foreign letters imprinted on them?
Well, I find it incredibly humorous that most of them don't make sense. For example, I have a lot of stuff from China. My mom brought this jacket here that has a tag saying: Mouth Valley. When my friends went back to China, they took these professional pictures, and one of them had a shirt on with the letters "little girl" imprinted (she was 15, not that little), while the other had the picture background saying "... I love you, I will forever remember you, you are my green grass..." ps. they remind me of some inappropriate stuff... mouth valley... little girl... ok.. i have a dirty mind. |
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Apr 12 2005, 07:25 PM
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hmm.. that's interesting. Maybe they just take the letters or symbols that look most interesting. Maybe they make sense to other people who speak that language? Most people who wear the clothes (like me!) probably just think it looks cool, although I don't wear many shirts with writing on them.
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Apr 12 2005, 07:27 PM
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very dirty. lol
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Apr 12 2005, 07:27 PM
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My name is Jason, not imafreakinazn D: Group: Member Posts: 2,008 Joined: May 2004 Member No: 18,432 |
teehee
it's funny when you go to those wannabe asian stores that have cards that have been directly translated. they say stuff like "i wish joy much you" it cracks me up. you'd think they're re-phrase it after translating it. |
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Apr 12 2005, 07:30 PM
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Yeah. A lot does get lost in translation. (things change from something harmless, to something dirty)
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Apr 12 2005, 09:31 PM
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 白人看不懂 !!!! Group: Member Posts: 3,838 Joined: Aug 2004 Member No: 40,824 |
I have a dirty mind, too then. =[
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Apr 12 2005, 09:41 PM
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my math teacher also says some of those shirts say things like "i'm a stupid american". he's not to be trusted though.
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| *salcha* |
Apr 12 2005, 09:52 PM
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hhahaha i should know, my relatives bring to me so much stuff like that:
"so much blue cloud in this world and peaceful too." my grandmother brought back a pink jacket from taiwan for me, and it seems innocent..but on the back, it says: NUDE CLUB with teddy bears all over it. haha, they probably don't even know what that means. i never wore it, even though i was in the second grade, i knew what NUDE meant.. its pretty amusing now that i think of it, i wonder if i still have that jacket. |
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| *stephinika* |
Apr 12 2005, 10:01 PM
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yeah some of those direct translations are amusing... http://www.engrish.com/
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Apr 13 2005, 12:30 AM
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i have a lot of really cute stationaries and a lot of them have odd sentences like "i wish think of you nothing"
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Apr 13 2005, 12:47 AM
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Yeah, but at least you know what the meaning is.
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Apr 13 2005, 12:56 AM
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...I didn't get it.
Am I that naive? 
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Apr 13 2005, 01:00 AM
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yeah thats interesting pretty cool
and there's nothing wrong with a dirty mind. I have one too 
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Apr 13 2005, 02:31 AM
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Coolness.
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Apr 13 2005, 02:41 AM
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 RAWR. Group: Member Posts: 2,585 Joined: Feb 2005 Member No: 102,641 |
my japanese teacher used to bring back stuff like that. Pictures and things of signs with english and japanese and the english would be all off. fun times.
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| *wind&fire* |
Apr 13 2005, 02:59 AM
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just read everything in morning glory
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Apr 13 2005, 04:19 AM
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Yeah, those are truly mind boggling. My favorite kinds of shirts are the Japanese shirts with the fancy Japanese kanji characters on them, and when you translate it, the characters probably translate into "I'm a stupid person." And the owner of the shirt doesn't know what it means, he just bought it because it looked cool.
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Apr 13 2005, 06:39 AM
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QUOTE(wind&fire @ Apr 13 2005, 2:59 AM) just read everything in morning glory  Lolz, I know aye Cariss!! All those weird translations from Korean, some don't even make sense! Majority of languages when translated into English are totally retarded but the language itself, its sometimes very meaningful. |
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Apr 13 2005, 07:18 AM
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intersting.. dirty.. Haha.
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Apr 13 2005, 05:10 PM
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ROFL!!!
 my wet soap  homo soap  ground pa |
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Apr 13 2005, 05:12 PM
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HAAAAAAAA. Group: Member Posts: 4,472 Joined: Dec 2004 Member No: 75,068 |
QUOTE(xj_liana_tx @ Apr 13 2005, 5:10 PM) ROFL!!! my wet soap homo soap ground pa Lmao. Those cracked me up. |
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| *jooleeah* |
Apr 13 2005, 05:20 PM
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I totally know what you're talking about! I had a shirt from Taiwan that was supposed to say "candy" but they spelled it wrong. And I have this stationary stuff...and it's supposed to say " How are you doing?", but it says " How do you doing?" It's adorable
 And you know those Nike shoes from China? Some have that Nike sign backwards 
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Apr 13 2005, 05:22 PM
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hm...they probably write bad things about america on things and send them over here!
 but that is kinda weird...and funny!
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Apr 13 2005, 05:39 PM
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 if you feel like dying; you might wanna sing Group: Member Posts: 100 Joined: Apr 2005 Member No: 124,836 |
LOL YEAH ! i know what you mean. i have some korean things that are like "angel show you the gift of life" or something and a lot of other things that are nonsense.
what other foreign things i find funny are like brands trying to be like others. like wehn i went to korea i saw like "suma" (puma) & what not. |
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Apr 13 2005, 06:17 PM
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 un cool. Group: Member Posts: 640 Joined: Apr 2005 Member No: 125,269 |
green grass.
haha. |
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Apr 13 2005, 06:18 PM
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lol yea
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Apr 13 2005, 06:36 PM
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 FUCK YOU Group: Member Posts: 118 Joined: Apr 2005 Member No: 125,981 |
umm....intresting..?
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Feb 14 2007, 05:32 PM
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 Oh Wow ... Group: Official Designer Posts: 688 Joined: Sep 2006 Member No: 468,522 |
QUOTE(stephinika @ Apr 12 2005, 7:01 PM) yeah some of those direct translations are amusing... http://www.engrish.com/ ha wow. I was looking at some of the clothes I like the one of today. Very interesting and funny. |
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Feb 14 2007, 06:22 PM
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I'm Cattt. :] Group: Validating Posts: 1,722 Joined: Apr 2005 Member No: 130,831 |
Maybe they just use freetranslation.com to translate instead of hiring a professional translator to translate for them. I guess the factories are cheap.
My mom doesn't understand why I don't buy clothes in Taiwan. Mostly it is because every single shirt/pants/shoes/purse/whatever is either fake or has weird English writing on it. It is very hard to find something normal! Yet, they do make US clothes. Maybe when someone tells them that the whatever is wrong, they change it and send the good ones to the US. Being the cheap people they are and to find a clever way to not lose so much money, they probably send the wrong ones to the little thrift stores, in an attempt to sell them. |
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