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How Foreigner Translate English into Chinese
May 30, 2007 03:36
  • BBQQ
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Look at the picture and have fun on this Chinese translation.

May 30, 2007 03:52
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terrible....
i have never seen such things
May 30, 2007 06:17
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I see Chinese and Japanese translation on the board. Where is it? Anyone knows?
May 30, 2007 09:56
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Please explain. The English looks OK to me.

It is also in Russian but of course I cannot understand it either.

Is there something wrong with the translation into Chinese.
May 31, 2007 01:22
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madam, i'm afraid the question is not "is there something wrong" the question is "is there anything right"
the whole sentence is in a mess so i can not tell you which part of this sentence is wrong, the whole sentence itself is a big joke.
of course i mean the chinese translation. the english is ok
May 31, 2007 01:30
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The English Tax Free Shopping Available Here should be translate as 这里购物免税(Za 4 Zhe 4 Li 3 Gou 4 Wu 4 Mian 3 Shui 4) or simply 购物免税(Gou 4 Wu 4 Mian 3 Shui 4). 免税(Mian 3 Shui 4) is the formal and exact way to translate Tax Free. Shopping can be translated to 购物(Gou 4 Wu 4).

Tax Free Shopping Available Here translated word by word to 税在这可以解除的购物 is a direct translation in English grammar and sentence pattern.
May 31, 2007 05:59
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Well now you have some idea of what we foreigners expereince when we see things more often than not translated from Chinese into English.
It's often a very good laugh too but sadly at whose expense.

It does not need to happen.
Jun 4, 2007 01:21
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Yes, it's terrible and funny to see some English translations in public all around China. Most of them are irresponsible at all!
Jun 4, 2007 12:17
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Not irresponsible, difficult to translate.
Jun 4, 2007 19:55
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Agree with Lp.
Jun 5, 2007 04:39
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Once I saw a sign at the exit of a park, it reads, 'Export'. Yes, EXPORT. That's because both exit and export can be translated into "出口"．i.e. "出口" has trwo meanings.

It must be the work of some sort of Chinse-English translation software.
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