Funny mistakes

[Gość: Voyteck]

While playing golf president Bush said "Now, watch this drive". Wiadomosci
translated it to "Teraz ide sobie pojezdzic". That reminded me of an article
I read some time ago "Jak poezje amerykanska zerznac tepym nozem" by
Stansilaw Baranczak. It had a whole bunch of funny mistakes made by polish
translators...

Anyway, if you know of any funny mistakes, let us know.

[Gość: Bert]

From the bottomless pit of Bushlexia:

"But even though I am mad, I still think peace is
possible."

have some more of DubyaSpeak

[Gość: Bert]

"The California crunch really is the result of not enough
power-generating plants and then not enough power to
power the power of generating plants."

"I'm hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in
Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize
that they are more likely to succeed with success as
opposed to failure."

"Redefining the role of the United States from enablers
to keep the peace to enablers to keep the peace from
peacekeepers is going to be an assignment."

"We're concerned about AIDS inside our White House ? make
no mistake about it."

"You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to
pass a literacy test.''

"My pan plays down an unprecedented amount of our
national debt."

"The legislature's job is to write law. It's the
executive branch's job to interpret law."

"If affirmative action means what I just described, what
I'm for, then I'm for it."

"Well, I think if you say you're going to do something
and don't do it, that's trustworthiness."

"I think anybody who doesn't think I'm smart enough to
handle the job is underestimating"

"The senator has got to understand if he's going to have
? he can't have it both ways. He can't take the high
horse and then claim the low road." Bush, on Sen. John McCain

"When I was coming up, it was a dangerous world, and you
knew exactly who they were. It was us versus them, and it
was clear who them was. Today we are not so sure who the
they are, but we know they're there."

"If the terriers and bariffs are torn down, this economy
will grow."

"Rarely is the questioned asked: Is our children learning?"

"Actually, I ? this may sound a little West Texas to you,
but I like it. When I'm talking about ? when I'm talking
about myself, and when he's talking about myself, all of
us are talking about me."

"For every fatal shooting, there were roughly three
non-fatal shootings. And, folks, this is unacceptable in
America. It's just unacceptable. And we're going to do
something about it."

"First, we would not accept a treaty that would not have
been ratified, nor a treaty that I thought made sense for
the country."?On the Kyoto accord

"There are some monuments where the land is so
widespread, they just encompass as much as possible. And
the integral part of the?the precious part, so to speak?I
guess all land is precious, but the part that the people
uniformly would not want to spoil, will not be despoiled.
But there are parts of the monument lands where we can
explore without affecting the overall environment"

"Ann and I will carry out this equivocal message to the
world: Markets must be open"

"If I'm the president, we're going to have emergency-room
care, we're going to have gag orders."

"I think if you know what you believe, it makes it a lot
easier to answer questions. I can't answer your
question."?In response to a question about whether he
wished he could take back any of his answers in the first
debate.

"I will have a foreign-handed foreign policy."

"He has certainly earned a reputation as a fantastic
mayor, because the results speak for themselves. I mean,
New York's a safer place for him to be."?On Rudy
Giuliani, the mayor.

"Laura and I really don't realize how bright our children
is sometimes until we get an objective analysis."

"I don't have to accept their tenants. I was trying to
convince those college students to accept my tenants. And
I reject any labeling me because I happened to go to the
university."

"This is Preservation Month. I appreciate preservation.
It's what you do when you run for president. You gotta
preserve."?Speaking during "Perseverance Month"

"What I am against is quotas. I am against hard quotas,
quotas they basically delineate based upon whatever.
However they delineate, quotas, I think vulcanize
society. So I don't know how that fits into what
everybody else is saying, their relative positions, but
that's my position.''

'I see Senator Lieberman, who is really working hard in
the Senate to cobble together a homeland security bill
that will work.'

The problem with the French is that they don't have a
word for 'entrepreneur.'

[Gość: Wiktoria]

Well, funny mistakes happen to me and my friends. Once, during a dinner I
asked my friend: "Do you want me give you a portion?" ( I think you know what
it exactly means - I did know though).
My friend - British, who is an English teacher, told me a story with his
student. The polish idiom "Nie dam ci za to głowy" was translated into Eglish
by the student who said "I won't give you a head for this" (can you imagin
reaction the British teacher?).
Once I found a fax message written by one of my colleague - the sentcece
started as follows:"I please you to..." :-)))

[Gość: erwas]

I always enjoyed a giant billboard standing facing the main international train
line outside one of (then) East Berlin's stations: "Workers of the German
Democratic Republic, thank you for your magnificent erections!
erwas

[kerryblue]

rotfl

the 1st example?

[Gość: Yorick]

I can't come up with anything more than 'give an abortion' or 'a potion' - but
sure i must be mistaken... - tell me?
as to the 2nd example I can imagine the reaction of the teacher to the refusal
of giving head.... was that a female student? and a male teacher?

as to Bush's speeches... i didn't have the nerve and time to read through them
but some pieces were exceedigly funny, e.g. unrest in the whole region... or
commander in chief's pity...
regards

[Gość: Wiktoria]

Gość portalu: Yorick napisał(a):

> I can't come up with anything more than 'give an abortion' or 'a potion' -
but
> sure i must be mistaken... - tell me?
> as to the 2nd example I can imagine the reaction of the teacher to the
refusal
> of giving head.... was that a female student? and a male teacher?
>
> as to Bush's speeches... i didn't have the nerve and time to read through
them
> but some pieces were exceedigly funny, e.g. unrest in the whole region... or
> commander in chief's pity...
> regards


Yes, it was a male teacher and a female student...

[Gość: aggie]

'z góry dziekuję'- 'thank you from the mountains'

[Gość: lumis]

I got a really good one :)
Here is what I found 10 years ago in the menu of a well-known pizzeria in
Krakow.
1. ..........
2. ...........
.
.
10. Pizza z mięsem (Pizza with meet)
:))))))))))
I just couldn't figure it out. Who the hell was I supposed to MEET??????
:)))

[Gość: Bartek]

Hoddog - mazury 2001

[Gość: blb]

on the menu, in a well-known,

Dear public assistance...

[Gość: Bert]

These are actual statements taken from cards, letters and
forms received by public assistance agencies.

I am writing the Welfare Dept. to say that my baby was
born 2 years old. When do I get my money?
I cannot get sick pay. I have had 6 children. Can you
tell me why?

This is my eighth child. What are you going to do about it?

Please find for certain if my husband is dead, as the man
I am living with can't do a thing until he knows.

I am very much annoyed to find you have branded my boy as
illiterate. This is a dirty lie. I was married to his
father a week before he was born.

In answer to your letter, I have given birth to a boy
weighing 10 pounds. I hope this is satisfactory.

I am forwarding my marriage certificate and my 3
children, one of which was a mistake as you can see.

My husband got laid off from his job 2 weeks ago, and I
haven't had any relief since.

I have no children yet as my husband is a bus driver and
works night and day.

In accordance with your instructions, I have given birth
to twins in the enclosed envelope.

I want my money as quick as I can get it. I have been in
bed with a doctor for 2 weeks and he hasn't done me any
good. If things don't improve I will have to send for
another doctor.

(In response to the question, "Why have you applied for
public assistance?") My husband left me last month and I
am in need of ass.

[brite]

aww
the tears
my eyes are full of them
*bursts with laughter*

[Gość: maya-22]

my jaws are aching!it was just great!!!!

[Gość: Aaron]

Mysle ze nie bardzo rozumiesz angielski jesli te kilka slow przetlumaczyles
wlasnie w taki sposob.(drive in that situation means "..to frighten or prod
(as game or cattle) into moving in a desired direction .. "
Keep a hard work...

Who bungled ?

[Gość: Bert]

"Thank You. Now Watch This Drive."

"Before starting his game yesterday, Mr. Bush, his driver
in his left gloved hand, took time to condemn an
overnight suicide bombing of a bus in Israel that killed
at least nine. "I call upon all nations to do everything
they can to stop these terrorist killers," Mr. Bush said
on the first green of Cape Arundel, at 6:15 a.m. "Thank
you. Now watch this drive." Without the slightest pause,
Mr. Bush turned to his game

[Gość: Wkurzona]

Sam jesteś pacan, albo nie zrozumiałeś dowcipu. A drive w tym momencie oznacza
zamachnięcie się i wybicie piłki kijem golfowym. Podana wersja była dla
śmiechu... Oj poucz się języków.

[Gość: RAJMUND]

In order to Meet the conditions for joining the single European
currency,
all citizens of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

must be made aware that the phrase "Spending a penny" is not to be used
after 31st. December 2002.
>From that date the correct terminology will be "euronating".

[Gość: RAJMUND]

Diet? -----------------

[Gość: kubu]

jeszcze do niedawna w knajpie POD KOGUTKIEM na ul. Freta w Warszawie serwowano
PEE SALAD :-///

Oodles of oops

[Gość: Bert]

Oodles of oops...
Real signs from everywhere. Give the writers an "E" for
effort.

In a Tokyo Hotel:
Is forbidden to steal hotel towels please. If you are not
a person to do such thing is please not to read notis.

In a Bucharest hotel lobby:
The lift is being fixed for the next day. During that
time we regret that you will be unbearable.

In a Leipzig elevator:
Do not enter the lift backwards, and only when lit up.

In a Belgrade hotel elevator:
To move the cabin, push button for wishing floor. If the
cabin should enter more persons, each one should press a
number of wishing floor. Driving is then going
alphabetically by national order.

In a Paris hotel elevator:
Please leave your values at the front desk.

In a hotel in Athens:
Visitors are expected to complain at the office between
the hours of 9 and 11 A.M. daily.

In a Yugoslavian hotel:
The flattening of underwear with pleasure is the job of
the chambermaid.

In a Japanese hotel:
You are invited to take advantage of the chambermaid.

In the lobby of a Moscow hotel across from a Russian
Orthodox monastery:
You are welcome to visit the cemetery where famous
Russian and Soviet composers, artists and writers are
buried daily except Thursday.

In an Austrian hotel catering to skiers:
Not to perambulate the corridors in the hours of repose
in the boots of ascension.

On the menu of a Swiss restaurant:
Our wines leave you nothing to hope for.

On the menu of a Polish hotel:
Salad a firm's own make; limpid red beet soup with cheesy
dumplings in the form of a finger; roasted duck let
loose; beef rashers beaten up in the country people's
fashion.

Outside a Hong Kong tailor shop:
Ladies may have a fit upstairs.

In a Bangkok dry cleaner's:
Drop your trousers here for best results.

In a Rhodes tailor shop:
Order your summers suit. Because is big rush we will
execute customers in strict rotation.

A sign posted in Germany's Black forest:
It is strictly forbidden on our black forest camping site
that people of different sex, for instance, men and
women, live together in one tent unless they are married
with each other for that purpose.

In a Zurich hotel:
Because of the impropriety of entertaining guests of the
opposite sex in the bedroom, it is suggested that the
lobby be used for this purpose.

In a Rome laundry:
Ladies, leave your clothes here and spend the afternoon
having a good time.

In a Czechoslovakian tourist agency:
Take one of our horse-driven city tours - we guarantee no
miscarriages.

In a Copenhagen airline ticket office:
We take your bags and send them in all directions.

In a Norwegian cocktail lounge:
Ladies are requested not to have children in the bar.

In a Budapest zoo:
Please do not feed the animals. If you have any suitable
food, give it to the guard on duty.

In the office of a Roman doctor:
Specialist in women and other diseases.

In an Acapulco hotel:
The manager has personally passed all the water served here.

From a Japanese information booklet about using a hotel
air conditioner:
Cooles and Heates: If you want just condition of warm in
your room, please control yourself.

From a brochure of a rental car firm in Tokyo:
When passenger of foot heave in sight, tootle the horn.
Trumpet him melodiosly at first, but if he still
obstacles your passage then tootle him with vigor.

[Gość: Bert]

I bet those will give a Pio Mio a fit.

[Gość: Insomnia]

I love one translation. I don't remember the title of the film but the
translation was great. One woman (still pregnant) was talking to her husband
about organizing a baby shower. She asked: 'Where are we going to have a baby
shower?' and the translation was: 'Gdzie wykąpiemy dzidziusia?'

[Gość: agulha]

It's only after watching "Alf" that I got known that a "shower" is a kind of a
party when people bring presents for the newborn.
I heard about another funny translation...in a L.M. Montgomery's book about
Emily it was written "Emily was going down the road. Her neighbour was driving
the road and he proposed her a lift" and the Polish version was "i zaproponował
jej windę"...

[magdalin]

It reminded me of one more lovely translation with the word: "baby". I heard it
a long tome ago on the radio, somebody translated the title of a song: "So
long, baby" as "takie długie dziecko". I thought I would die laughing.
Another real life story: my brother-in-law, then a fresh law school graduate,
at a party at the Jagiellonian University asked a guest from the Frankfurt law
department ( an elderly gentleman), trying to make a polite conversation in his
bad English: What kind of love do you practise? Poor guy did not pronounce the
word: law properly, and - jugding by the dismayed look of his interlocutor - he
was grossly misunderstood...

[Gość: dan]

the best I've ever heard was in "Wayne's world" on Polsat. garth entered the director's house and said: "wow, cool house". It was translated as "chłodniutko tu"

[Gość: Insomnia]

I love it :)))

[Gość: Betty]

magdalin napisała:

> It reminded me of one more lovely translation with the word: "baby". I heard
it
>
> a long tome ago on the radio, somebody translated the title of a song: "So
> long, baby" as "takie długie dziecko". I thought I would die laughing.
> Another real life story: my brother-in-law, then a fresh law school graduate,
> at a party at the Jagiellonian University asked a guest from the Frankfurt
law
> department ( an elderly gentleman), trying to make a polite conversation in
his

What about that funny translation of the title: "My little one" -moja mała
jedynka
>
> bad English: What kind of love do you practise? Poor guy did not pronounce
the
> word: law properly, and - jugding by the dismayed look of his interlocutor -
he
>
> was grossly misunderstood...

[maggie7]

Let me add someting. Seen on the menu in a restaurant in Poland:

paluszki rybne - FISH'S FINGERS :o)))))

[ozpol]

maggie7 napisała:

> Let me add someting. Seen on the menu in a restaurant in Poland:
>
> paluszki rybne - FISH'S FINGERS :o)))))


Sorry you are wrong - we have fish fingers in our menu and we even have crab
fingers.
Sounds stupid but...

[Gość: Xiv]

I believe there are 'fish fingers' not 'fish's fingers' :)

Xiv

[maggie7]

you didn't read it right, I wrote FISH'S FINGERS... and that's not correct fo
sure :o) take care...

Bloopers from Church Bulletins

[Gość: Bert]

Thursday night - Potluck supper. Prayer and medication to
follow.

For those of you who have children and didn't know it, we
have a nursery downstairs.

The rosebud on the alter this morning is to announce the
birth of David Alan Belzer, the sin of Rev. and Mrs.
Julius Belzer.

This afternoon there will be a meeting in the South and
North ends of the church. Children will be baptized at
both ends.

Tuesday at 4:00 pm there will be an ice cream social. All
ladies giving milk will please come early.

Wednesday the ladies liturgy will meet. Mrs. Johnson will
sing "Put me in my little bed" accompanied by the pastor.

Thursday at 5:00 pm there will be a meeting of the Little
Mothers Club. All ladies wishing to be "Little Mothers"
will meet with the pastor in his study.

This being Easter Sunday, we will ask Mrs. Lewis to come
forward and lay an egg on the alter.

The service will close with "Little Drops of Water". One
of the ladies will start quietly and the rest of the
congregation will join in.

Next Sunday a special collection will be taken to defray
the cost of the new carpet. All those wishing to do
something on the new carpet will come forward and do so.

The ladies of the church have cast off clothing of every
kind. They can be seen in the church basement Saturday.

A bean supper will be held on Tuesday evening in the
church hall. Music will follow.

At the evening service tonight, the sermon topic will be
"What is Hell?" Come early and listen to our choir practice.

More bloopers from Church Bulletins

[Gość: Bert]

The pastor will preach his farewell message, after which
the choir will sing, "Break Forth Into Joy."

Today - Christian Youth Fellowship House Sexuality
Course, 1 p.m.-8 p.m. Please park in the rear parking lot
for this activity.

22 members were present at the church meeting held at the
home of Mrs. Marsha Crutchfield last evening.
Mrs.Crutchfield and Mrs. Rankin sang a duet, The Lord
Knows Why.

Miss Charlene Mason sang, "I will not pass this way
again," giving obvious pleasure to the congregation.

The sermon this morning: "Jesus Walks on the Water." The
sermon tonight: "Searching for Jesus."

Anna remains in the hospital and needs blood donors for
more transfusions. She is also having trouble sleeping
and requests tapes of Pastor Jack's sermons.

The ladies Bible Study will be held on Wednesday morning
at 10 a.m. All ladies are invited to lunch in the church
hall after the B.S. is done.

The third verse of Blessed Assurance will be sung without
musical accomplishment.

Remember in prayer the many who are sick of our church
and community.

Irving Benson and Jessie Carter were married on October
24 in the church. So ends a friendship that began in
their school days.

Don't let worry kill you--let the church help

Next Sunday Mrs. Solosky will be soloist for the morning
service. The Pastor will then speak on "It's a terrible
experience"

Eight new choir robes are currently needed, due to the
addition of several new members and to the deterioration
of some older ones.

The eighth-graders will be presenting Shakespeare's
Hamlet in the Church basement Friday at 7 PM. The
Congregation is invited to attend this tragedy.

[Gość: Michelicus]

This can be well known by some of you. I don't remember a magazine which these
examples were in:
1. "To stop dripping - turn the cock right." - in the shower in hotel room in
Japan
2. "Dresses for streetwalking" - banner on one of the shops in large city in
France

[Gość: goska]

I worked for the American Embassy, at the visa unit. The common mistake that
made us laugh was:
"Kto bedzie opiekac dzieci, jak pani wyjedzie" -who's gonna bake your kids
while you're gone.
There was one man, who was not understood by us - Poles, but by American also.
And his Polish was REALLY creative.
Once he asked:
"czi ma pani kont dewizowy" (do you have bank account in dollars, but he said
smth like "a flat/quiet spot)
the answer was:
"nie. lokatorski" (no, community owned)
I must think. There was a lot, almost everyday)




Gość portalu: Michelicus napisał(a):

> This can be well known by some of you. I don't remember a magazine which
these
> examples were in:
> 1. "To stop dripping - turn the cock right." - in the shower in hotel room
in
> Japan
> 2. "Dresses for streetwalking" - banner on one of the shops in large city in
> France
>

[brite]

great! give us more!
=)

[michelicus]

I have a lot of contacts with people from Sweden who use English which we
usually call SwEnglish. Example:
Thet say "I'm not interesting" instead of "I'm not interested"
They say "That's my view point."
... and many more.

[Gość: [e-mail]]

it so happens that the expression'that's my view point' is perfectly correct,
Cheerio!

[Gość: dajaj]

Gość portalu: [e-mail] napisał(a):

> it so happens that the expression'that's my view point' is perfectly correct,
> Cheerio!
it so happens that its not . 'Thats my point of view 'is correct. Thats my View
point means smth like to moj taras widokowy ;)

a supplementum

[Gość: Bert]

Advertisement for donkey rides in Thailand:
WOULD YOU LIKE TO RIDE ON YOUR OWN ASS?

Detour sign in Kyushi, Japan
STOP: DRIVE SIDEWAYS

In a Swiss mountain inn:
SPECIAL TODAY---NO ICE CREAM

A Finnish hotel?s instructions in case of fire:
IF YOU ARE UNABLE TO LEAVE YOUR ROOM, EXPOSE YOURSELF IN
THE WINDOW

Two signs from a Majorcan shop entrance:
ENGLISH WELL TALKING
HERE SPEECHING AMERICAN

A sign on the lion cage at a zoo in the Czech Republic:
NO SMOOTHEN THE LION

Sign in a butcher?s window:
PLEASED TO MEAT YOU

In another Japanese hotel room:
PLEASE TO BATHE INSIDE THE TUB

On the trucks of a local plumbing company in NE Pennsylvania:
DON'T SLEEP WITH A DRIP

In a Bangkok temple:
IT IS FORBIDDEN TO ENTER A WOMAN EVEN A FOREIGNER IF
DRESSED AS A MAN

In a Tokyo bar:
SPECIAL COCKTAILS FOR THE LADIES WITH NUTS.

In a Japanese public bath:
FOREIGNER GUESTS ARE REQUESTED NOT PULL COCK IN TUB

[Gość: MaciekS]

Gość portalu: Bert napisał(a):

> Advertisement for donkey rides in Thailand:
> WOULD YOU LIKE TO RIDE ON YOUR OWN ASS?
>
> Detour sign in Kyushi, Japan
> STOP: DRIVE SIDEWAYS
>
> In a Swiss mountain inn:
> SPECIAL TODAY---NO ICE CREAM
>
> A Finnish hotel?s instructions in case of fire:
> IF YOU ARE UNABLE TO LEAVE YOUR ROOM, EXPOSE YOURSELF IN
> THE WINDOW
>
> Two signs from a Majorcan shop entrance:
> ENGLISH WELL TALKING
> HERE SPEECHING AMERICAN
>
> A sign on the lion cage at a zoo in the Czech Republic:
> NO SMOOTHEN THE LION
>
> Sign in a butcher?s window:
> PLEASED TO MEAT YOU
>
> In another Japanese hotel room:
> PLEASE TO BATHE INSIDE THE TUB
>
> On the trucks of a local plumbing company in NE
Pennsylvania:
> DON'T SLEEP WITH A DRIP
>
> In a Bangkok temple:
> IT IS FORBIDDEN TO ENTER A WOMAN EVEN A FOREIGNER IF
> DRESSED AS A MAN
>
> In a Tokyo bar:
> SPECIAL COCKTAILS FOR THE LADIES WITH NUTS.
>
> In a Japanese public bath:
> FOREIGNER GUESTS ARE REQUESTED NOT PULL COCK IN TUB
>



Stop that!!! You are killing me. I almost fell off my
chair :-)))

I am going to the tub... I will leave the cock alone :-)

[Gość: fonfette]

:)

From the Soviet Weekly: There will be a Moscow Exhibition of Arts by 150,000
Soviet Republic painters and sculptors. These were executed over the past two
years.

In an advertisement by a Hong Kong dentist: Teeth extracted by the latest
Methodists.

On the door of a Moscow hotel room: If this is your first visit to the USSR,
you are welcome to it.

In a Tokyo shop: Our nylons cost more than common, but you'll find they are
best in the long run.

In a Vienna hotel: In case of fire, do your utmost to alarm the hotel porter.

A translated sentence from a Russian chess book: A lot of water has been passed
under the bridge since this variation has been played.

On the faucet in a Finnish washroom: To stop the drip, turn cock to right.

In the window of a Swedish furrier: Fur coates made for ladies from their own
skin.

On the box of a clockwork toy made in Hong Kong: Guaranted to work throughout
its useful life.

In a Hong Kong supermarket: For your convenience, we recommend courteous,
efficient self-service.

In an East African newspaper: A new swimming pool is rapidly taking shape since
the contractors have thrown in the bulk of their workers.

Brit?s Jewels

[Gość: Bert]

Brits make signs too

Sign in a London department store:
BARGAIN BASEMENT UPSTAIRS

In an office:
WOULD THE PERSON WHO TOOK THE STEP LADDER YESTERDAY
PLEASE BRING IT BACK OR FURTHER STEPS WILL BE TAKEN

Outside a farm:
HORSE MANURE 50p PER PRE-PACKED BAG 20p DO-IT-YOURSELF

In an office:
AFTER TEA BREAK STAFF SHOULD EMPTY THE TEAPOT AND STAND
UPSIDE DOWN ON THE DRAINING BOARD

On a church door:
THIS IS THE GATE OF HEAVEN. ENTER YE ALL BY THIS DOOR.
(THIS DOOR IS KEPT LOCKED BECAUSE OF THE DRAFT. PLEASE
USE SIDE DOOR.)

Outside a secondhand shop:
WE EXCHANGE ANYTHING

[Gość: MaciekS]

Gość portalu: Bert napisał(a):

> Outside a farm:
> HORSE MANURE 50p PER PRE-PACKED BAG 20p DO-IT-YOURSELF

> Spotted in a toilet in a London office block:
> TOILET OUT OF ORDER PLEASE USE FLOOR BELOW



These are my two favorite texts :-))) The others are also
"cool".

[Gość: mika]

I think there is a lot of mistakes made by Polish translators. Unfortunately,
not all are funny. Once I had my college degree translated into English, and it
was just one big mistake. I wrote it myslef and made them sign. They
apoligized, but I lost a lot of time. My son, who is bilingual, makes funny
mistakes like: "zrob troche pokoju", when he wants his brother to move, and
make room for him to sit. He makes much more, but I cannot recall them. Take
care Mika

[ozpol]

This is from support call - in France
"User is working FMS and apps hangs and have to shit down the apps. Stops
responding."
No English born people always make mistakes and we are not only one.

[Gość: STHL]

in a small toy store around the corner:

four four by fours for fourteen dollars. fourty in stock.

i have a picture of that somwhere, but I would have to look.

[Gość: erwas]

Gość portalu: STHL napisał(a):

> in a small toy store around the corner:
>
> four four by fours for fourteen dollars. fourty in stock.
>
> i have a picture of that somwhere, but I would have to look.


I don't get it.
fourty? is that the funny bit?

[Gość: bubus]

Gosc Yorick napisal(a):
"as to Bush's speeches... i didn't have the nerve and time to read through them
but some pieces were exceedigly funny, e.g. unrest in the whole region... or
commander in chief's pity..."

Am I missing something? Where is the beef?
Bubus

[Gość: KK]

You ment: ...That reminded me of an article
I RED some time ago...
KK

[Gość: Luki]

Gość portalu: KK napisał(a):

> You ment: ...That reminded me of an article
> I RED some time ago...
> KK

He MENT!?
I bet he MEANT, if we are really going to be malicious.
And read, not red, of course.

[Gość: Jazzek]

"Noah's arc" translated as 'Łuk Noaha' by Marek Gaszyński on the radio

[pawel78]

You know "The Wonder Years", don't you? It's being broadcast again on TV Puls.
The Polish translation is done by Piotr A. Majewski - I believe he did quite a
good job except for a few really ridiculous mistakes. One of them:
Denise, probably the most attractive girl in school, unexpectedly kisses Kevin
on the lips when they're both sitting in her car. While she does, she passes
her chewing gum from her mouth into his (of course we can't see it, but later,
when she has left, he takes it out). The next day at school Kevin brags to his
friends and they don't really believe him, so he says: "I had her gum in my
mouth!" Polish translation?... yeah, you guessed: "Miałem w ustach jej dziąsła!"

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[Gość: Bert]

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Nothing wrong here:
For sale by owner: complete set of Encyclopedia
Britannica. 45 volumes. Excellent condition. $1,000.00 or
best offer. No longer needed. Got married last weekend.
Wife knows everything.

odwiedzcie koniecznie www.engrish.com

[Gość: ja]

najpocieszniejsze obrazki i teksty, wszystko w sam raz dla policji jezykowej :-)

[Gość: Adam]

Hi,

Where did you read Baranczak's article?

Adam

[Gość: RJK]

Niektore bledy tlumaczy wynikaja nie tyle z braku znajomosci idiomatycznego
jezyka angielskiego, co z nieznajomosci kultury i historii Wielkiej Brytanii
czy USA. Dawno, dawno temu telewizja polska pokazywala film z Betty Davis
pt. "Elizabeth and Essex" (z niesmacznym tlumaczeniem "Prywatne zycie Elzbiety
i Essexa". Hrabia Essex skarzy sie na skromne urodzenie krolowej Elzbiety i
nazywa ja, wedle polskiego lektora "wielka wnuczka walijskiej ochmistrzyni".
Prawie dobrze; pra-pradziadkiem Elzbiety byl walijski ochmistrz, Owen up Tudur.
Tego samego wieczora w "kinie nocnym" uslyszalem kolejny kwiatek.
Smiertelnie chory bohater zegna sie ze swoim przyjacielem cytujac ostatnie
slowa Nelsona "Kiss me, Hardy." W polskim tlumaczeniu; "Pocaluj mnie mocno."
Notabene, niektorzy twierdza, ze ostatnie slowa admirala Nelsona brzmialy w
rzeczywistosci "Kismet, Hardy" co samo w sobie kwalifikuje sie do
kategorii "funny mistakes".
R

[Gość: Wojtek]

Gazeta Wyborcza. But it was almost 10 years ago :)
Best,

[Gość: Karuna]

anything out of Bush's mouth is usually a mistake and therefore hysterical to
try and translate, poor interpreters....

a propos..

[Gość: marcin]

a propos .. a joke:
In Immigration Office:
Clerk: SEX?
Man: Twice a week.
C: :) No, no .. I mean male or female?
M: Doesn't matter :)

take care , m

[Gość: tom]

And how about the wide-spread and ever-popular in Poland
CHESSBURGER?

[Gość: Maigwen]

Chessburger... no tak, hamburger w szachownicę, calkiem prawdopodobne,
zwlaszcza na fali ostatnich rewelacji nt. mięsiw drugiej/trzeciej swiezosci...
To nie pomylka, to szczerośc sprzedawców:-)

Funny mistakes in Greece

[Gość: ZK]

I saw a few funny things while I was on holidays in greece. There was quite a
big shop with sport equipment called "Athlete's Foot", which translated to
Polish means "grzybica". It was also possible to eat "lamp" for a dinner in
several restaurants - I guess they meant "lamb" actually.

[Gość: RJK]

And the really funny thing is that "Athelet's Foot" is a bonifide world-wide
chain store with atheletic footware. I've never set my foot in it and never
will.
R

[Gość: tmq]

"athelete's foot" stores are located in almost every mall
across US and canada. in poland there are malls with "af"
stores too, i suppose

[Gość: ZK]

This is really strange. I could understand in the Greece.... But worldwide? To
make sure I have checked it on dictionary.com.... and that's what I found, and
this is the only meaning. Does anyone have any explanation?

ath·lete's foot (thlts)
n.
A contagious fungal skin infection caused by a species of Trichophyton or
Epidermophyton that usually affects the feet, especially the skin between the
toes, and is characterized by itching, blisters, cracking, and scaling;
ringworm of the foot. Also called tinea pedis.

Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth
Edition
Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.