Most languages cannot be translated word-by-word b... ...e. This can give us a laugh when using mechanical translations such as Babelfish, but are oh-so-important in con... ...tension between the U.S. and Russia. However, the translation was a bit too literal. The sense of the Russian p...
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/02/08/9-Little-Translation-Mistakes-That-Caused-Big-Problems/
Funny, I saw all the Star Wars films and I don't r... ...good for a laugh. I mean, I can understand a bad translation to Chinese, but how the hell did they come up wit... ...product of a chain English-Chinese-English Google translation ? Why did they put these next to the Chinese text?...
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/02/01/The-Wacky-World-of-Chinese-Bootleg-Movies/
That universal translator you see in Star Trek? Yes, that one that can instantaneously translate languages while being spoken? It's coming to real life, courtesy of Microsoft: Microsoft...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/11/10/Star-Trek-Universal-Translator-Coming-to-Real-Life/
You may have read the story about the Chinese re-release of the movie Titanic. The nude scene was cut from the 3D version because of fears that Chinese men would reach out and try to grab Kate Winslet's, um, assets. Jame...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/04/22/a-world-class-joke/
Here's a collection of 50 Hollywood films that were retitled for foreign release, and then re-translated into English for our amusement. That means that there may be some mistranslation going on, but the results are pric...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/03/08/the-50-most-absurd-translations-of-film-titles/
This unintentionally goofy mistranslation appears on a toy package in a Chinese dollar store. Unfortunately, the original photographer is unknown. -via Dangerous Minds...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/24/batmans-origin-story/
Sam Kean wrote a book about the periodic table of elements called The Disappearing Spoon. When the Chinese edition came out, he was surprised by the cover art, which included some element icons that were sexually suggest...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/19/lost-in-translation-2/
When Hollywood movies are renamed for overseas audiences, the results can be literal or inexplicable, and sometimes remarkably apt. For example, Knocked Up was released in China as One Night Big Belly, which makes perfec...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/15/the-fifty-funniest-movie-title-translations/
American movies are often re-titled for foreign audiences. In this quiz, you'll be given a foreign title of a US movie, translated into English. Can you guess what movie it was in the US? It's a multiple-choice question,...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/03/19/lurking-title/
Archaeologists find them; linguists try to read th... ...f Old Hungarian – but it defies all attempts at translation . This bamboozling manuscript was given to the Hun...
http://www.neatorama.com/2010/12/23/7-mysterious-coded-texts-that-defy-translation/
