It would be referring to salted pig trotters. In Cantonese it is a slang term for the hand of a pervert. Not sure about Mandarin.
Ninja'd by Etaoin. Groping pervert might be a better translation.
Because people are not allowed to enter and use whatever it is.
施工中，不准使用
'Construction going on. Using [this] not allowed.'
Yes, I get it now, but at first I was confused because, as Callaina said, that particular part of the anatomy seemed to be crossed, lol.
The original says ''ice cream in (an) ass(ortment)''.
Apparently, engrish.com is no more.
No warning too.
It just disappeared.
It just disappeared.
I have a few thoughts about Arabic.
I don't know if this has been mentioned but I came across a funny mistranslation in Arabic:
The Arabic here transliterates literally to /miːt buːl/ in IPA, which is an attempt at representing the sound of "meat ball" in Arabic letters. But, the phrase ميت بول would more normally mean "Paul is dead", being pronounced "mayit bul" ("mayit" means "dead" and "bul" is Arabic's best rendering of "Paul").
Also "qalbi" is common term of endearment in Arabic, meaning "my heart", but it is very similar in pronunciation to "kalbi", which means "my dog", an insult. I'm not sure if native Arabic speakers confuse the two ever, but I imagine it is a mistake that Arabic learners make (like myself).
Likewise, "tawila"(/taːwila/) meaning "table" is similar to "tawila" (/ta'wiːl/), the feminine adjective meaning "tall". I have in the past called a woman a table by accident, when I meant to call her tall.
I don't know if this has been mentioned but I came across a funny mistranslation in Arabic:
The Arabic here transliterates literally to /miːt buːl/ in IPA, which is an attempt at representing the sound of "meat ball" in Arabic letters. But, the phrase ميت بول would more normally mean "Paul is dead", being pronounced "mayit bul" ("mayit" means "dead" and "bul" is Arabic's best rendering of "Paul").
Also "qalbi" is common term of endearment in Arabic, meaning "my heart", but it is very similar in pronunciation to "kalbi", which means "my dog", an insult. I'm not sure if native Arabic speakers confuse the two ever, but I imagine it is a mistake that Arabic learners make (like myself).
Likewise, "tawila"(/taːwila/) meaning "table" is similar to "tawila" (/ta'wiːl/), the feminine adjective meaning "tall". I have in the past called a woman a table by accident, when I meant to call her tall.
I've seen the picture with "Paul is dead" before but never the reason for the mistranslation. Very interesting!I don't know if this has been mentioned but I came across a funny mistranslation in Arabic:
The Arabic here transliterates literally to /miːt buːl/ in IPA, which is an attempt at representing the sound of "meat ball" in Arabic letters. But, the phrase ميت بول would more normally mean "Paul is dead", being pronounced "mayit bul" ("mayit" means "dead" and "bul" is Arabic's best rendering of "Paul").
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This made me google to see what happened to the original 'Paul is dead' conspiracy theorists. For those who don't remember the Sixties, either because they were there or they weren't, someone came up with the idea that Paul McCartney of the Beatles had died and been replaced by a double. There are some still knocking about, it seems. I never knew back then why anyone would bother, and can't tell you now, but perhaps someone might like to wade through this and report back: https://the-wakeup-call.com/viewtopic.php?t=52&start=40
For me it works.
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Here is a terrible one
The time I was learning English I had to basically memorize like hundreds of words per day because I just got to the US for Middle school and I barely understood a 2nd grader. Relying on such vocabulary would be an disaster, even though I was only 14. But as I attempted to memorize vocabs beyond my brain’s maximum capacity, words start to get messed up. Unfortunately, I was mistaking two words that I should not be.
They are “erupt” and “ejaculate”
One day I saw a news written in Chinese about a volcano “eruption.” I showed the picture to some of my friends. I said in English: “Hey! Here’s a volcano ejaculation”
You can now imagine the rest of the story with me justifying: “Yes! The volcano did ejaculate!”
The time I was learning English I had to basically memorize like hundreds of words per day because I just got to the US for Middle school and I barely understood a 2nd grader. Relying on such vocabulary would be an disaster, even though I was only 14. But as I attempted to memorize vocabs beyond my brain’s maximum capacity, words start to get messed up. Unfortunately, I was mistaking two words that I should not be.
They are “erupt” and “ejaculate”
One day I saw a news written in Chinese about a volcano “eruption.” I showed the picture to some of my friends. I said in English: “Hey! Here’s a volcano ejaculation”
You can now imagine the rest of the story with me justifying: “Yes! The volcano did ejaculate!”