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More Perils of a Foreign Language

Posted by Joseph Bottum on July 18, 2008, 3:41 AM

Reading my earlier post about the Chinese restaurant named “Translate Server Error,” Rich Vaughan, the head of our publication management firm, was prompted to send along these examples of mangled English from his own trip to China:

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