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Lol did you take this or find this picture? XD
I saw a picture of a package being sold in stores that was supposed to say "France / Francais / Frances" but instead it just said "French french french" lol. Translation fails are the best... I hear in Mexico at many restaurants the menus and makeshift signs are extremely funny translations. XD
China also has flawless translations on their signs.
Have you heard of hanzi smatter? "dedicated to the misuse of chinese characters in western culture".
I'm relatively new to learning Swedish; do all those sentences say "Same in Swedish"?
Ha! I was watching a programme the other day that was set in Spain and there was a sign which read:
LA FOTOGRAPHIA NO ESTA PERMITIDO
Close, but I expected better from the BBC.
I can understand the mistakes that brought that plackard into being, but that it was delivered to the hospital, not to mention put up...
I'm a Finn, and although Finland's status as a bilingual country is merely official, not real (except in relation to Finnish and English among the young people), I can assure you that there is no way this picture could be from a real hospital in Finland. It's just not even remotely thinkable.
I'm sure the real origin is Photoshop in the hands of someone, who wanted to make some sort of a language-political statement.
Apparently it's real: http://www.seiska.fi/Viihdeuutiset/Kaikkien-aikojen-kylttimoka-Malmin-sairaalan-seinassa-kuva/1022661
What's fun is going to the movies in Finland, the foreign movies have double subtitles :) At least in Helsinki
