Translation Mistakes
‘Worst’ translation about, wait for it …Babel!
Liverpool and Dutch fooballer – sorry, soccer player – Ryan Babel (no joke!) has hit back at reports linking him with a move away to Ajax, stating that the English Press had sourced woeful translations (nothing to do with us, thanks) that ultimately created the unfound rumours.
When questioned about his intermittent involvement in recent Liverpool [...]
Gaelic translation for Scottish Parliament, via India
Just seen a report that Scottish Parly chiefs have gone and outsourced a Gaelic Translation project to a company based in India – via a UK based company (!) – only to use locally sourced linguists (local to Scotland) for the job. This is despite Holyrood employing two in-house Gaelic speakers, of course, prompting the [...]
La Tribune in English (sort of)
Leading French newspaper La Tribune have launched English, Italian, German and Spanish versions of their website. The only downside is that they have used machine translation.
While machine translation is great for smaller businesses and hobby sites to help their users get the gist of a site, it is not what you would expect from such [...]
Pedestrians Puzzled by Welsh Road Sign
Pedestrians in Cardiff, Wales have been left in a state of confusion by a wrongly translated road sign
Hayden Panettiere’s Misspelt Tattoo
Yet another celebrity has made the mistake of having the wrong translation permanently inked on to their body.
Hayden Panettiere, the 19 year old star of Heroes, has joined the growing list of celebs including David Beckham and Rihanna who have had a misspelt translated tattoo.
The actress meant to have “to live without regret” translated into [...]
Gazprom Highlight Need for Brand Checks
Russian energy giant Gazprom recently announced a joint venture with the state run Nigerian energy company NNPC. Unfortunately they didn’t think it wise to get their chosen brand checked for inappropriate or culturally offensive meanings throughout the world.
