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The Jungle Book - Der Dschungelbub?
It’s another translation gone wrong. The poster was advertising a children’s cinema showing the Jungle Book and used a picture from the 1967 animated film. The German word for jungle is ...
When translations go wrong: a helping of lamb?
Of all the translations that I have seen on Lanzarote that have gone wrong, this one has to be the worst. I think the original says “a typical dish from southern India with a helping of lamb in ...
When translations go wrong: Lanzarotean
One of the problems with international translations is that you have to deal with words connected to places that don’t always have an obvious translation in every language. One example I had a f...
When translations go wrong - the podcast
Sometimes you see signs that have been translated into German, only not quite translated correctly. This can have funny results. Graham saw, and photographed, several of these whilst on holiday on Lan...
When translations go wrong: parking
Here is another example of a translation into German that appears to have gone slightly wrong: What it wants to do is to ask you politely not to park in front of the entrance, but it should read R...
More bad chicken translations
Remember that half-baked chicken? Here are some more examples from the same menu, seen on Lanzarote:...
When translations go wrong: half a chicken
Sometimes you see signs that have been translated into German, only not quite translated correctly. This can have funny results. Take this example seen on Lanzarote: The correct translation would b...