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Gudrun Wolfrath
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Jun 27, 2010

http://people.msoe.edu/~taylor/humor/english.htm
 
Abdulhadi Hairan
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Fun with English Jun 27, 2010

Lolz, very funny! In a Pakistani restaurant I saw this:

Discussing politics is bullshit prohibited from the manager.

In a Kabul office, on the door of the men toilet was written this:

This is the male toilet, for ladies, please refer to the female toilet.

And on the front wall of an educational institution in Karachi, Pakistan, I saw this written in CAPITAL letters:

The penis is mightier than the sword.
 
3ADE shadab
3ADE shadab
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Hindi to English
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Enjoy Jun 28, 2010

Enjoy this..

http://www.guy-sports.com/humor/pictures/picture_engrish_japanese.htm
 
Gudrun Wolfrath
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Germany
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TOPIC STARTER
Thank you for sharing this, Jun 28, 2010

Abdulhadi and Mohd.
 
Mrudula Tambe
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India
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In memoriam
A machine translation Nov 1, 2010

done in local languages for the localization of certain product, source English tagline "Enjoy the date (here, a day of the month) with your girl friend" changed to "Enjoy the date (fleshy fruit of the date palm) with your woman friend".
 
Lingua 5B
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English to Croatian
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Hilarious.. Nov 1, 2010

... lol...........
 


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