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<blockquote data-quote="Orionblamblam" data-source="post: 53153" data-attributes="member: 90"><blockquote data-quote="Triton"><p>We should be grateful that the word wasn't similar to a personal insult in Russian. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></p></blockquote><p></p><p>"My hovercraft is full of eels."</p><p>or</p><p>"I seem to be having tremendous difficulty with my lifestyle."</p><p></p><blockquote><p>But it is a cause for concern that the Department of State got the translation wrong.</p></blockquote><p></p><p>Indeed. This may be apocryphal, but I recall reading that after Hiroshima, the US sent a "you want to surrender now?" message to the Japanese. As the story goes, the Japanese sent back a short reply that unfortunately had two possible meanings:</p><p>1: "We're thinking it over."</p><p>2: "We ignore you."</p><p></p><p>It was translated as #2, and shazam! There goes Nagasaki.</p><p></p><p>It's funny when a cheap product has lazy translation (like virtually every bit of consumer electronics out of China). It's not so funny when people who have the job of keeping the world from exploding do lazy translation.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Orionblamblam, post: 53153, member: 90"] [quote="Triton"] We should be grateful that the word wasn't similar to a personal insult in Russian. ;) [/quote] "My hovercraft is full of eels." or "I seem to be having tremendous difficulty with my lifestyle." [quote]But it is a cause for concern that the Department of State got the translation wrong. [/quote] Indeed. This may be apocryphal, but I recall reading that after Hiroshima, the US sent a "you want to surrender now?" message to the Japanese. As the story goes, the Japanese sent back a short reply that unfortunately had two possible meanings: 1: "We're thinking it over." 2: "We ignore you." It was translated as #2, and shazam! There goes Nagasaki. It's funny when a cheap product has lazy translation (like virtually every bit of consumer electronics out of China). It's not so funny when people who have the job of keeping the world from exploding do lazy translation. [/QUOTE]
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