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Wednesday, November 13, 2013
Russian Translation Errors
A legacy of Communist times
It should say, Attention, do not use the stairs!
We always the the Russians were very liberal on homosexuality
It should say, Sausage Roll
American foreign diplomacy at its best
When Hillary Clinton last met Sergey Lavrov, Russian Foreign Minister, she gave him a gift representing a “resetting” of the relationship between the U.S. and Russia. This followed from the deterioration of the relationship between world powers after the Russian invasion of Chechnya. Instead of saying “reset” in Russian, as was intended, the translation on the gift said, "overcharge” in Russian.
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