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• Date:

  Tuesday, 29 Jul y 2008 - 17:37 UTC

  Anna Kushnir said:

  I honestly can’t even begin to guess. What does it say?

  I watched the video that you posted a little while ago. It seems like China is really gearing up for the Olympics! I hope that confusing signs like these become rarer. It could only serve to improve tourism and tourism profits.

• Date:

  Tuesday, 29 Jul y 2008 - 17:51 UTC

  Bob O'Hara said:

  Ah, I saw this on Language Log a few weeks ago.

• Date:

  Tuesday, 29 Jul y 2008 - 17:53 UTC

  Anna Kushnir said:

  Wow. Thanks for the link, Bob. So how does this happen? Do Babel Fish and the like not accept Chinese characters? What services are there for automated translation of Chinese? I am sure it doesn’t help that there are 50 million dialects in Chinese (slight overestimate).

• Date:

  Thursday, 31 Jul y 2008 - 17:50 UTC

  Bob O'Hara said:

  Language log has been posting more mis-transations, from Chinese menus.

• Date:

  Monday, 04 Aug ust 2008 - 09:39 UTC

  Andrew Sun said:

  It is more amusing to Chinese…