Bad English Translations
On International Signs
International Signs from around the world,
in countries where English is not the national language
Dry cleaners in Bangkok:
DROP YOUR TROUSERS HERE FOR BEST RESULTS.
🌝
On a Japanese hotel’s website:
The link is free and there is not getting in touch on the occasion of the link in this page, being necessary.
🌝
In a Nairobi restaurant:
CUSTOMERS WHO FIND OUR WAITRESSES RUDE OUGHT TO SEE THE MANAGER.
🌝
On the grounds of a private school:
NO TRESPASSING WITHOUT PERMISSION.
🌝
On an Arctic River highway:
TAKE NOTICE: WHEN THIS SIGN IS UNDER WATER,
THIS ROAD IS IMPASSABLE.
🌝
On a sign in Japan:
Do not lean on gate for it occurs you Trouble.
🌝
On a poster at Fight Illiteracy:
ARE YOU AN ADULT THAT CANNOT READ? IF SO, WE CAN HELP.
🌝
In a City restaurant:
OPEN SEVEN DAYS A WEEK AND WEEKENDS.
🌝
A sign seen on an automatic restroom hand dryer:
DO NOT ACTIVATEWITH WET HANDS.
🌝
In a maternity ward:
NO CHILDREN ALLOWED.
🌝
In a cemetery:
PERSONS ARE PROHIBITED FROM PICKING FLOWERS FROM ANY
BUT THEIR OWN GRAVES.
🌝
Sign in Japanese public bath:
FOREIGN GUESTS ARE REQUESTED NOT TO PULL COCK IN TUB.
🌝
Tokyo hotel’s rules and regulations:
GUESTS ARE REQUESTED NOT TO SMOKE
OR DO OTHER DISGUSTING BEHAVIOURS IN BED.
🌝
Hotel room notice in Chiang-Mai, Thailand:
PLEASE DO NOT BRING SOLICITORS INTO YOUR ROOM.
🌝
Hotel brochure in Italy:
THIS HOTEL IS RENOWNED FOR ITS PEACE AND SOLITUDE.
IN FACT, CROWDS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD FLOCK HERE TO ENJOY ITS SOLITUDE.
🌝
In a Tokyo Hotel:
IS FORBITTEN TO STEAL HOTEL TOWELS PLEASE.
IF YOU ARE NOT PERSON TO DO SUCH THING IS PLEASE NOT TO READ NOTIS.
🌝
In another Japanese hotel room:
PLEASE TO BATHE INSIDE THE TUB.
🌝
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.
🌝
In a Hong Kong supermarket:
FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE, WE RECOMMEND COURTEOUS, EFFICIENT SELF-SERVICE.
🌝
Outside a Hong Kong tailor shop:
LADIES MAY HAVE A FIT UPSTAIRS.
🌝
In a Rhodes tailor shop:
ORDER YOUR SUMMERS SUIT. BECAUSE IS BIG RUSH WE WILL EXECUTE CUSTOMERS IN STRICT ROTATION.
🌝
From the Soviet Weekly:
THERE WILL BE A MOSCOW EXHIBITION OF ARTS BY 15,000 SOVIET REPUBLIC PAINTERS AND SCULPTORS.
THESE WERE EXECUTED OVER THE PAST TWO YEARS.
🌝
In an East African newspaper:
A NEW SWIMMING POOL IS RAPIDLY TAKING SHAPE SINCE THE CONTRACTORS HAVE THROWN IN THE BULK OF THEIR WORKERS.
🌝
In a Vienna hotel:
In CASE OF FIRE, DO YOUR UTMOST TO ALARM THE HOTEL PORTER.
🌝
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 an advertisement by a Hong Kong dentist:
TEETH EXTRACTED BY THE LATEST METHODISTS.
🌝
A translated sentence from a Russian chess book:
A LOT OF WATERHAS BEEN PASSED UNDER THE BRIDGE
SINCE THIS VARIATION HAS BEEN PLAYED.
🌝
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.
🌝
Advertisement for donkey rides in Thailand:
WOULD YOU LIKE TO RIDE ON YOUR OWN ASS?
🌝
On the faucet in a Finnish washroom:
TO STOP THE DRIP, TURN COCK TO RIGHT.
🌝
In the window of a Swedish furrier:
FUR COATS MADE FOR LADIES FROM THEIR OWN SKIN.
🌝
On the box of a clockwork toy made in Hong Kong: GUARANTEED TO WORK THROUGHOUT ITS USEFUL LIFE.
🌝
Detour sign in Kyushi, Japan:
STOP: DRIVE SIDEWAYS.
🌝
In a Swiss mountain inn:
SPECIAL TODAY - NO ICE CREAM.
🌝
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 Copenhagen airline ticket office: WE TAKE YOUR BAGS AND SEND THEM IN ALL DIRECTIONS.
🌝
On the door of a Moscow hotel room:
IF THIS IS YOUR FIRST VISIT TO THE USSR, YOU ARE WELCOME TO IT.
🌝
In a Norwegian cocktail lounge:
LADIES ARE REQUESTED NOT TOHAVE CHILDREN IN THE BAR.
🌝
At 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 Romanian doctor:
SPECIALIST IN WOMEN AND OTHER DISEASES.
🌝
In an Acapulco hotel:
THE MANAGER HAS PERSONALLY PASSED ALL THE WATER SERVED HERE.
🌝
In a Tokyo shop:
OUR NYLONS COST MORE THAN COMMON
BUT YOU’LL FIND THEY ARE BEST IN THE LONG RUN.
🌝
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 car rental firm in Tokyo:
WHEN PASSENGER OF FOOT HEAVE IN SIGHT, TOOTLE THE HORN.
TRUMPET HIM MELODIOUSLY AT FIRST,
BUT IF HE STILL OBSTACLES YOUR PASSAGE
THEN TOOTLE HIM WITH VIGOR.
🌝
Two signs from a Majorcan shop entrance:
ENGLISH WELL TALKING.
HERE SPEECHING AMERICAN.
🌝
Outside a Paris dress shop:
DRESSES FOR STREET WALKING.
🌝
One of the Mathare buildings:
MENTAL HEALTH PREVENTION CENTER.
Read more:
