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Finally Friday: Lost In Translation

Jul 3, 2009, 2:00pm speed of dark
Finally Friday: Lost In Translation Better late than never, right? First a disclaimer: I am sure that every tourist, no matter what their native language and wherever they go, encounters translations in other countries that display a lack of deep knowledge of their language. In every language there are subtle meanings that aren't explained in word-to-word translation dictionaries. So I am not making fun of our Chinese hosts, but we did enjoy the humor in these signs. The lovely painting above was hung in the ladies' restroom of a very nice vegetarian restaurant in Beijing, which I [...]
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