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Lost in translation

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I tried translating "by prior appointment only" into Korean the other day using Google Translate. I put the results into Bing Translate to see how accurate it was. It was retranslated as "promise"...

My SIL has just received a "Rainbow Tower" - a child's toy - from China. Here are the instructions for use:

Let the baby know the familiar color. Teach the baby know a set of tower up of a few colors, can find out where a few colors are same; combine to dismantle all wreaths, more and once size, let he according to from big arrive small or since the childhood of the sequence carries on the alignment, according to right of in proper order a wreath one by one in order the set returns to a set of tower up, let the baby know size in proper order, beats the foundation of the next image for the numerical size of the comprehension.
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Re: Lost in translation

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There are some howlers to be found on sites like engrish.com

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