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May 6th, 2005
Lost in Translation

My mom is Japanese. She just surfed to my site using a Japanese search engine. Here’s what she saw:

I was looking at your site while on Japanese MSN and your site was in Japanese, but the translation was bad. I am so sure that someone either not fluent in English OR not fluent in Japanese made the translation program.

“pre order now” = “you are to place your order now”

“sign up” = “you are to register this minute” (or else…)

This program is translating word for word like a dictionary.

:lol:

You are to pre-order now or you will be assimilated…

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6 Responses to “Lost in Translation”

  1. Jill says:

    LOL, loved this.

  2. Amy K. says:

    Hey, maybe it’s a new marketing concept?

  3. Teresa says:

    LOL on the translations. But I’m with Lynn. . .. Will they work?:wink:

  4. Lynn says:

    LOL at those translations. And the Trekkie moments. Question is, will the translations work? Will they order now or sign up this minute? :mrgreen:

  5. Sylvia says:

    *g* Yeah, I had a Trekkie moment too. :oops:

  6. Gina says:

    The last line might have made me giggle just a little. I had a Trekkie moment.



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