Saturday, October 3, 2009

Just for laughs

What's the result when you try to translate Chinese-English into Russian? Confusion!

My friend asked me to translate a user's manual for her, but I had a lot of trouble deciphering it, and often had to go by the diagram.

Most amusing were the "care" instructions at the end:


1) When you on-off the door, please do not overexert, for fear mangle the parts.


2) Every season put a few butter in the path, and let the door move about freely.



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