Indecipherable Ancient Books Found In Chongqing

Epoch Times ^ | 2-24-2008

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[Renfield]

[Lee'sGhost]

engrish.com

LMAO!

[Renfield]

I have found a translation. Here it is:

[Greg F]

We the Zarg write this before we begin our intersteller journey. Ling Pin having discovered the secret of superluminal transportation will have the honor of initiating the launch sequence. The mechanism to achieve superluminal transport is described in the following pages . . .

And there, sadly, the scroll ends.

Translation services provided by Beavis, Inc.

[greyfoxx39]

LOL

[Quix]

Thanks.

Interesting.

[Greg F]

Did you check out the website? It’s hilarious.

[null and void]

Great.

Now the Chinese will claim to have invented the Voynich Manuscript...

[MHGinTN]

Piffle, this stuff would open up like a flower if we could get that peepstone in Salt Lake City and borrow a smelly hat.

[Ciexyz]

too funny.

[Grizzled Bear]

Hey! That made my brain go all woozy!

[dr_lew]

I guess the idea is clear enough, so without parsing the whole thing a few comments. I can sound out the katakana without looking them up, so the ads at the bottom caught my eye. The skylark ad says “re su to ran” at the top, or “restaurant”. At the bottom it says “ga su to”. What is that? You would expect “gast” but that’s no good. Well I searched for [ skylark restaurant Japan ] and found ... GUSTO! It’s the name of a restaurant chain in Japan owned by Skylark. Then the Chinese restaurant ad says “ba mi yan”, so I searched that and “Bamiyan” is the name of the restaurant - surprise, surprise.

With regard to the “engrish”, a comment on the use of “I” in the bottom line. The Japanese do not normally use the word for “I” unless they want to emphasize the unique individuality of some action or situation, which they rarely do. The phrase is “watashi wa” - “regarding myself in particular”. So normally you say, “went to store” rather than “regarding myself in particular, went to store.” Unless this was some kind of heroic action under the circumstances.

Well, whoever was composing the “engrish” was presumably aware of the converse fact - that english speakers say “I” all the time for no good reason, and so supplied it, instead of the more direct, “when parking discovered without permission 10,000 yen collected”