Bad
Translations Found on Signs Around the World
In a Copenhagen airline ticket office:
We take your bags and send them in all
directions.
On
the door of a Moscow hotel room:
If this is your first visit to the USSR, you are
welcome to it.
In a
Norwegian cocktail lounge:
Ladies are requested not to have children at the
bar.
In a
Budapest zoo:
Please do not feed the animals. If you have any
suitable food, give it to the guard on duty.
In a
Japanese information booklet about using a hotel air
conditioner:
Cooles and Heates: If you want just condition of
warm in your room, please control yourself.
In a
brochure of a car rental firm in Tokyo:
When passenger of foot heave in sight, tootle
the horn. Trumpet him melodiously at first, but if he
still obstacles your passage then tootle him with vigor.
Two
signs from a Majorcan shop entrance:
English well talking. Here speeching American.
In a
Tokyo hotel:
Is forbidden to steal hotel towels please. If
you are not a person to do such thing is please not to
read notis.
In
Bucharest hotel lobby:
The lift is being fixed for the next day. During
that time we regret that you will be unbearable.
In a
Leipzig elevator:
Do not enter the lift backwards, and only when
lit up.
In a
Belgrade hotel elevator:
To move the cabin, push button for wishing
floor. If the cabin should enter more persons, each one
should press a number of wishing floor. Driving is then
going alphabetically by national order.
In a
Paris hotel elevator:
Please leave your values at the front desk.
In a hotel in
Athens:
Visitors are expected to complain at the office between
the hours of 9 and 11 A. M. daily.
In a
Yugoslavian hotel:
The flattening of underwear with pleasure is the
job of the chambermaid.
In
the Black Forest:
It is strictly forbidden on our black forest
camping site that people of different sex, for instance
men and women, live together in one tent unless they are
married with each other for that purpose.
In a
Zurich hotel:
Because of the impropriety of entertaining
guests of the opposite sex in the bedroom, it is
suggested that the lobby be used for this purpose.
In an
advertisement by a Hong Kong dentist:
Teeth extracted by the latest Methodists.
In a
Rome laundry:
Ladies, leave your clothes here and spend the
afternoon having a good time.
In a
Czechoslovakian tourist agency:
Take one of our horse-drawn city tours - we
guarantee no miscarriages.
In a
Swiss mountain inn:
Special today -- no ice cream.
In a
Bangkok temple:
It is forbidden to enter a woman even if a
foreigner is dressed as a man.
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