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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