The Perils of a Foreign Language

Yes, well, perhaps that computerized translation program didn’t work out as well as it could for this Chinese restaurant, whose owners seem to have thought that the error message they got was the English translation for which they had asked. But, I don’t know, the food at a place called “Translate Server Error” sounds oddly tasty.

[from BoingBoing , via The Volokh Conspiracy ]

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