Careful, you might explode with laughter.

22 Chinese Signs That Got Seriously Lost In Translation

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“The only difference between me and a madman is that I’m not mad.” — Salvador Dali ★ Play a slooooow correspondence game with me on OGS?

I like 11.
I'm assuming it's translated like that because the word for life and dream are the same which is a nice thought.

They are not.

To be more specific, neither "life" nor "dream" is on the sign! :/

There are lots of theories about this sign on the internet: a super-archaic word for "taking a break," a confusion between the phrases for "resting" and "under construction", or maybe a colloquialism from a Wu region. At any rate, since it's not standard Mandarin, probably the machine translator choked on it.

When you see the whole set, you start to wonder if this is just a photoshop joke about the gullibility of internauts:

http://31.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m87aj ... o1_400.jpg
http://31.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m87aj ... o2_500.jpg
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m87aj ... o3_400.jpg

#4 makes up in accuracy what it lacks in civility.

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Poka King of the south east.

A few weeks ago I was visiting ChaoYang Park in Beijing, the location of the 2008 Olympic beach volleyball tournament. Nice sand and water park. But near the site there's a small restaurant having a sign saying 'Collect silver place', when it actually means 'cashier'.

Yes, they translated 收銀處 character by character, instead of as a whole term.

Incidentally,

¹cashier. noun. one that has charge of money: as
a. a high officer in a bank or trust company responsible for moneys received and expended
b. one who collects and records payments
c. an employee (as in a store) who handles monetary transactions

²cashier. transitive verb.
1. to dismiss from service; especially: to dismiss dishonorably
2. reject, discard

In Chinese, 收銀處 actually refers to the location where payment is collected, not the person.
And if we try to reverse-translate cashier to Chinese (or another language),
then we run into the multiple definitions of cashier in English.
Translation is very difficult.

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The Adkins Principle:
At some point, doesn't thinking have to go on?
— Winona Adkins

Visualize whirled peas.

Everything with love. Stay safe.

Thank god for google.

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Dave Sigaty
"Short-lived are both the praiser and the praised, and rememberer and the remembered..."
- Marcus Aurelius; Meditations, VIII 21

So … you think we’re not even able to Goggle [sic!], mh?

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Oh I read it as.

Every life is lucky and the lucky lucky [son?].

suerte - luck
sueño - sleep/dream

A few more but some we already know from that other page.

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“The only difference between me and a madman is that I’m not mad.” — Salvador Dali ★ Play a slooooow correspondence game with me on OGS?