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Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Translation Errors from around the World!

Welcome to translation errors from around the world, simply click on the country of your choice for translation mistakes from that particular country! Please feel free to suggest your own errors per country in the comments section of each post on the blog! There are some hilarious clangers here, please enjoy, like or share from the social bookmarks below each post!
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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.