Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Lost in Translation

Although it is admittedly quite easy to spot cross-cultural howlers in Asia, it would be hard to resist noting some of the good ones:

  •  A restaurant in the neighborhood of my school has the unfortunate English name "Chicken Syndrome." Perhaps understandably, none of us is willing to give the place a try.
  •  A local plastic surgeon is offering a "Celine Dion Gold Package" of multiple procedures for the new Celine Dion you. Really, it should be the "Heidi Montag."
  • I recently bought a Korean CD of Charlie Chaplin's silent drama A Woman of Paris with this inexplicable box copy (reproduced exactly): "A Woman of paris is a serious, sincere effort, with a bang story subtlety of idea-expression." 

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