China’s Poorly Translated English Signs Lead To Laughs

Posted on August 15, 2011 by John

I caught this Marketplace radio piece on In China, signs translated into English baffle. There’s always a good laugh on how poorly translated Chinese into English can be really funny, as an example: ‘The Chinese Ethnic Culture Park’ being translated into ‘Racist Park.’

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I'm a Taiwanese-American and was born & raised in Western Massachusetts, went to college in upstate New York, worked in Connecticut, went to grad school in North Carolina and then moved out to the Bay Area in 1999 and have been living here ever since - love the weather and almost everything about the area (except the high cost of housing...)
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