home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
-
- Foreign translation errors.
- ---------------------------
-
- I found this lurking in a corner, and thought it would be better
- if it saw the light of day.
-
- ========================================================================
-
- 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
- beat 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.
-
- Similarly, from a Soviet Weekly: There will be a Moscow Exibition of
- Aets 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 water
- has 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 to
- have 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 Roman 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.
-
- ========================================================================
-
-
- Have fun de G4HEB @ GB7NEM
- Peter
-
- *** eof
-