Chinese restaurant called TRANSLATE SERVER ERROR

BoingBoing.net ^ | July 15, 2008 | Cory Doctorow

[Squawk 8888]

I'm not sure what Chinese string this restaurateur fed to the translation software used to to generate the giant sign hanging over the entrance, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't: TRANSLATE SERVER ERROR. Ah, the special problems of translations into other alphabets.

[Squawk 8888]

Lost in translation non-ping.

[Phantom Lord]

One of my favorite sites...

http://www.engrish.com/

[Petronski]

Me no hire real translator!

[Slings and Arrows]

I'm going to make a website called HTTP 404 NOT FOUND. Just think of all the free publicity!

[RightWhale]

This just in:

2005 FY9 has been named Makemake

[ErnBatavia]

[HIDEK6]

They're just doing this to be cute.

He'll do his share of business.

[pabianice]

Lucky it wasn’t “Server Error.”

[tumblindice]

Manager/Owner: Mr. Sum Ting Wong

[DannyTN]

It could be a theme restaurant.

You order, and they give you something completely different. For that authentic foreign restaurant feel.

[visualops]

Probably typed in “rosie o’donnell ching chong”

[Publius6961]

...but it looked great!
And it was just the right length.

Picky... picky... picky...

[dighton]

“You like eggs, señora. Stepped-on eggs. Muy sabrosos. Divorced eggs? For fish, sliced of filet with peas. Vol-au-vent à la reine. Somersaults for the queen. Or you like poxy eggs, poxy in toast. Or veal liver tavernman? Pimesan chike chup? Or spectral chicken of the house?”

— Under the Volcano.

[HereInTheHeartland]

This would be a better message to see than say: “You have just experienced a fatal server error”

[martin_fierro]

For this story I have nothing but

[RichInOC]

I wonder if they still have that place in Beijing that specializes in animal organ meats...male organ meats to be exact. I mean, the city was already asking restaurants to take dog off the menu.

[LimaLimaMikeFoxtrot]

Ha...reminds me of the story of the translation from English to Chinese of the saying "Out of sight, out of mind".

It came out "Invisible idiot".

[Knitting A Conundrum]

There’s a character in an anime named Sesshoumaru, which means, among other things, Killing Perfection. A translation from Hong Kong called him Killing Pill.

I love Google translate. There is a character from the same series named Naraku. His name means Hell, more or less, but is often used as a term for theater basement. I got used to Google translate him as the basement, and then trap room. But suddenly, they consistantly started translating his name as Coaster Ride. I have no idea why.

At least “Translation Server Error” was more understandable!

[red-dawg]

[GSWarrior]

There is a Chinese restaurant in my neighborhood that now serves sheff salad.

[Squawk 8888]

The translation I heard for that phrase was “blind and insane”.

[kenth]

Hah! That would be great!

[trillabodilla]

Thanks for all the great pings!

You, my friend, have been on a ROLL this week! LOLOL!

[Allegra]

You order, and they give you something completely different. For that authentic foreign restaurant feel.

I hate it when I order the Fido Foo Yung and they bring me the Kitty Kao Pung.

[Danae]

Engrish preese

[Danae]

Off the back of a toybox... yea this one is real..... WTF is "Slice to record"? What is "Flush the blue light"???

[llevrok]

Like the modern slang for "what's up" is "s'up?"

Wondering what this food is, the chef was asked and he replied, "s'corn".Somewhere the apostrophe got dropped.

Or as the old joke goes, ask some one "snoo?" When they ask back, "what's snoo?" you reply, "Oh, not much. What's new with you?"

I'll be here all week folks.......

[Slings and Arrows]

Well, shucks. As long as the weather is fair-and-continued-weird my job is easy.