Comments on: Fucking Stationery

By: Adsotrans » Blog Archive » Fucking Stationary and Flagrant Mistranslations

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 11:53:38 +0000

[...] so frequently translated as “fuck” in inappropriate situations, while John Pasden and Brendan O’Kane have blogged about related cases recently as [...]

By: Newsflash: Chinese-English Machine Translation Is Getting Better | Sinosplice: Life in China

Tue, 11 Dec 2007 12:32:39 +0000

[...] recently wrote a post in which he discusses the possible origins of offensive translations of the word 干. He strongly [...]

By: 博客李淼 » Chinglish和其它

博客李淼 » Chinglish和其它 — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 17:43:08 +0000

[...] 鉴于mirror同学提到了含蓄，我决定还是含蓄一点，将F-word中的一个字母去掉，就像Newsweek这些杂志喜欢做的那样-当然这样很装。为了补偿，我给出那篇老美文章的链接。 [...]

By: Pure-Essence.Net » Chinglish

Pure-Essence.Net » Chinglish — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 05:30:54 +0000

[...] Chinglish explained and more Chinglish. [...]

By: Feds

Feds — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 04:57:37 +0000

I don’t know, I think over-40 types would not know what the word ‘fuck’ meant. Or anyone from outside the main cities who might end up with lame translation jobs. And a machine would probably default to the first meaning of the word, which likely is ‘dry’.

All this makes for lots of hilarity. And a lot of advertisers looking like dorks.

By: danjo

danjo — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 08:56:06 +0000

The guy who runs The Chinglish Files (http://www.chinglish.de/) has been talking about the causes of these mistranslations lately, including his latest post. And there is a great post/picture involving “fuck” back on July 5th (having trouble directly linking to posts on that site).

By: juan luis Garcia

juan luis Garcia — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 18:00:06 +0000

It´s hard,,,right ???
I´m a japanese translator myself….
Anyway,,,I was sending you this post to tell you about something else…

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If you have a great deal of visits and even if you don´t ….you could use an affiliate program like selling posters and art prints…. they give 25-30% of the sales done through your site….

If you´re interested,,,do let me know,, and I´ll send you the link…

By: New Notebooks | Sinosplice: Life in China

New Notebooks | Sinosplice: Life in China — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 13:06:45 +0000

[...] Brendan has a good post on how English like in the top notebook above comes to [...]

By: Paul King

Paul King — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 13:05:06 +0000

I also agree that it might be because of machine translation. I just wonder what kind of program always renders the word 干 into ‘fuck’, because that’s far from its most common meaning.

By: John

John — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 08:32:05 +0000

Your theory makes the most sense to me. It’s the same program people in Guangdong use to create those crazy subtitles, translated back into English from Chinese.

The one you’ve got pictured here is my new Spanish notebook. :)