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Calluna · Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 10:03 pm Post subject: "common" English phrases

http://mayatawi.livejournal.com/533906.html

Found this via one of the fandom_wank spinoff communities. I need to go make some Aladdin icons now. Laughing

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Syera · Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 10:32 pm Post subject:

"He missed the butt."

*dies laughing*
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Salukfan · Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 1:12 am Post subject:

AladdinsGenie · Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 2:28 am Post subject:

To Express Anger:

"I didn't mean to get his monkey up."

Yeeeeees Laughing

APK · Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 5:13 pm Post subject:

I'll translate Very Happy

Jafaria · Vizier's Handmaiden Joined: 14 Feb 2006 Posts: 419

These were quite funny. It reminds me a little of the book Here Speeching American, which is a collection of signs, notices, and other examples of English spoken in foreign countries that very rarely makes sense. Like the Chinese flight attendant who announced "We will now be serving snakes" or the "English Phrasebook" that included "I have mistaken a banana for a telephone!"

APK · Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2007 5:45 pm Post subject:

So was this like a jokebook or was the author serious? Laughing

Calluna · Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2007 6:44 pm Post subject:

Syera · Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2007 10:49 pm Post subject:

"She has an aching tooth at men." - that one also gets me.

On the subject of hilarious mistranslations...
http://www.engrish.com
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Janette Morgan · Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 3:52 pm Post subject:

"I don't want to hold any further intercourse with you" -- Happens to Japanese, too. To them, "intercourse" means the same as "social exchange". I blame the person who taught them English.

"All pep talk failed to boost my morale."
Feeling pout, are we?

"She has an aching tooth at men."
Like a sweet tooth?

"Cudgel your brains."
Actually, I get this one from Syera frequently.

And of course... "He missed the butt." I die laughing here.
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