Sunday, June 6, 2010


I don't have a very serious comment on this, except that I find this ad hilarious. Maybe it's because I fail to understand the cultural connotations here, as an outsider...but it brings into mind a lot of things that are funny to a Westerner (perhaps just me??). For example, badly translated Chinese names. People choose names that sound like their Chinese moniker (usually 3 words long)..but that has funny results such as "Elvis Chan". I should also add that badly translated Chinese often results in grammatically incorrect T-shirts, also with funny results. What did I see the other day..."friends we must be play in rain"...something like that. But for that, there is always www.engrish.com. For the rest, it is just accepting that things lost in translation have funny results.

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