Comments on: Vegetarian’s Diary: Day 2

By: hahaha

hahaha — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:16:22 +0000

wow, amazing. you would be totally surprised to know that CHINESE words on the menu on the link to May I take your order is WRONG as well!!!!!

Someone illiterate simply went to the computer and typed based on the sounds of words…. then flopping them into some translation software. UNBELIEVABLE!!!!!!!

By: CathyC

CathyC — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 22:57:45 +0000

Are you using the MDGB Chinese english dictionary site? My daughter who is taking Mandarin in school came to my rescue and helped me look up these words there. We got the same result.

By: plainoldass

plainoldass — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 19:32:14 +0000

Well you’re a smartass!

By: Smartass

Smartass — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 13:30:04 +0000

You’re a DUMBASS.

By: Plum

Plum — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 23:29:12 +0000

‘A west bean pays the fish a soup’

By: Sylderon

Sylderon — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 16:22:18 +0000

Take off your panties, Sir William! I cannot wait ’til lunchtime.

By: Doctor dunNothing

Doctor dunNothing — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 06:13:23 +0000

The first character has several meanings. One of which is Dry or Dried (there’s no tense in the Chinese language). Another meaning is ‘to do’ as in ‘to do something’.
Unfortunately one of the first commercial Chinese-English translating programs made interpreted it as ‘to do someone’. ie. ‘to fuck someone’.
Hence the liberal use of the word ‘fuck’ sprinkled in stores and restaurants throughout China.

By: jice

jice — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 02:30:22 +0000

first, jice!

By: Emar

Emar — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 22:55:59 +0000

I know! Do you go for the “good fuck” or just the normal “fuck”? I think the choice is obvious.

By: ThyGoblinking

ThyGoblinking — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 06:58:56 +0000

Who’s PieHole is this? I formally request that it be shut.

By: sam

sam — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 12:42:29 +0000

great!!!!

By: Mentally insane

Mentally insane — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 01:17:28 +0000

HELLZ YEA!!!! FIRST COMMENT I EVER POSTED!!!

By: Ashley

Ashley — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:44 +0000

yes, exactly.

By: Jan Itor

Jan Itor — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 21:09:42 +0000

My hovercraft is full of eels.

By: Lance E Sloan

Lance E Sloan — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:58:31 +0000

You should get an award for posting that link. Or maybe you should be fined.
My sides hurt so much from all the laughing.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:52:49 +0000

Dumb fuck? Is that like where Lennie Small rapes Curley’s wife?

By: katirrac

katirrac — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 08:45:33 +0000

He’s still wandering along the fuck nuts aisle

By: snograt

snograt — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 22:03:27 +0000

Did you, like, read any of the comments above? That’s why they’re talking about dry fucks, dumb fuck.

By: Llamaz

Llamaz — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 19:47:33 +0000

Excuse me, I’ve been insensitive to those avid Astroglide and Pink Water fans. *looks downcast*

By: Llamaz

Llamaz — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 19:46:36 +0000

Virgins are awkward.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 18:43:06 +0000

Wait a second. I’m noticing a patturn here.

Why do all the ones where it says “Fuck” have a character that looks like two horizontal parallel lines being interected by one verticle line?

By: Captain Weiner

Captain Weiner — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 17:01:24 +0000

Kentucky?

By: ringo

ringo — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 16:19:02 +0000

And here I thought it was a subtle and witty side comment.

By: chimaera

chimaera — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 16:15:32 +0000

Thanks for the explanation, it’s good to understand why dry-fucks keep occuring. Too many capable cadres killed by tree trunks.

By: Raggy

Raggy — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 14:46:15 +0000

*brings in a mob of seven-footer bodybuilders* Fuck ‘em up REAL GOOD, boys.

By: Kanchou

Kanchou — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 05:59:20 +0000

So now we know that the site can handle Unicode but not a simple list of numbers…

By: Kanchou

Kanchou — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 05:57:14 +0000

Here’s how:

乾 (Traditional Chinese)
干 (Simplified Chinese)

1) dry
2) clean
3) surname Gan

幹 (Traditional Chinese)
干 (Simplified Chinese)

1) tree trunk
2) main part of sth
3) to manage
4) to work
5) to do
6) capable
7) cadre (in communist party)
to kill (slang)
9) to fuck (slang)

Never mind that the two are pronounced slightly differently. Looks like Simplified Chinese has much to answer for.

By: Miss Antipodes

Miss Antipodes — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 05:40:16 +0000

Hmmmm…. Decisions, decisions…..

By: Arbiter

Arbiter — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 03:21:42 +0000

Someone forgot their translation rules…

By: PieHole

PieHole — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 03:07:30 +0000

Great! Daddy told me i’d never be more than a moron! i r proud

By: gneiwa

gneiwa — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 02:25:36 +0000

How the hell did DRY become FUCK? :/

By: Kroenen

Kroenen — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 01:25:47 +0000

20th!!!!!!!!!!

By: Ziggymama

Ziggymama — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 00:52:06 +0000

I just found a hilarious example of a machine translated menu, http://rahoi.com/2006/03/may-i-take-your-order/ and the explanation of the most confusing:
“word “gan” means both “to dry” and “to do,” and the latter meaning has come to mean “to fuck.” Unfortunately, the recent proliferation of Colloquial English dictionaries in China means people choose the vulgar translation way too often, on the grounds that it’s colloquial.”

By: duck

duck — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 00:40:33 +0000

my nipples explode with delight!

By: Karen

Karen — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 00:25:25 +0000

At least we’re all being educated on bad Chinese translations.

By: boom

boom — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 00:04:08 +0000

bouncy bouncy!

By: Kanchou

Kanchou — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 22:07:56 +0000

They’re trying to say “dry” or “dried”—dried fruits, dried food products etc. How exactly that became f… Maybe they buy their phrasebooks from Hungary.

By: D-Mac

D-Mac — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 22:02:10 +0000

This is the umpteenth sign we’ve seen with this word in it. Can someone PLEASE tell me what they are TRYING to say??????

By: homescribe

homescribe — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 21:30:57 +0000

maybe the translator was all f***ed out

By: Brian

Brian — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 21:16:20 +0000

The KY? Kuki yomenai? Why would you want to bring along awkward people when you’re going out for some good fucking?

By: Llamaz

Llamaz — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 19:15:02 +0000

Either would sound perfectly enjoyable if it wasn’t a dry grocery..bring the KY.

By: Kanchou

Kanchou — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 19:09:51 +0000

Whoops—my mistook—it means “fruit”. Remind me never to go to China.

But why wasn’t it fully translated?

By: raptorkid

raptorkid — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 19:06:00 +0000

absolute WIN!

By: Kanchou

Kanchou — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 19:03:17 +0000

And what the heck is the right hand side supposed to be? That last character means “male”…

By: sbd

sbd — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 18:49:04 +0000

I’ll head to the left and pay the extra for the GOOD fuck, thank you.

By: Brandon_ha

Brandon_ha — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 18:20:29 +0000

at least your still a douche

By: Jess

Jess — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 18:07:53 +0000

So what I find so funny is even though “Dry” is mistranslated like in previous “Fuck Food” posts, the sign directly in the middle is translated correctly… as if someone seriously did just plug and post what they thought it really said…

No idea ._.

By: Orangie

Orangie — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 18:02:37 +0000

wow… dis is funny

By: PieHole

PieHole — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 17:19:00 +0000

I failed. i has a sad

By: PieHole

PieHole — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 17:18:03 +0000

I’m a duche. Also first!