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Something Just Got Lost in the Translation...

 

With over 7,500-odd languages in the world, it's very hard to keep thing's straight when you translate from one language to another. Of these languages, English must be the most complicated and difficult to learn. I found these with some of my old high school english papers. Go figure!..

 

In a Tokyo hotel room: Is forbitten to steal hotel towels please. If you are not person to do such thing is please no to read notis.

In another Japanese hotel room: Please to bathe inside the tub.

In a 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 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 AM daily.

In a Yugoslavian hotel: The flattening of underwear with pleasure is the job of the chambermaid.

In the lobby of a Moscow hotel across from a Russian Orthodox monastery: You are welcome to visit the cemetery where famous Russian and Soviet composers, artists, and writers are buried except Thursday.

In an Austrian hotel catering to skiers: Not to perambulate the corridors in the hours of repose in the boots of ascension.

On the menu of a Swiss restaurant: Our wines leave you nothing to hope for.

On the menu of a Polish hotel: Salad a firm's own make; limpid red beet soup with cheesy dumplings in the form of a finger; roasted duck let loose; beef rashers beaten up in the country people's fashion.

In a Hong Kong supermarket: For your convenience, we recommend courteous, efficient self-service.

In a Bangkok dry cleaner's window: Drop your trousers here for best results.

Outside a Paris dress shop: Dresses for street walking.

In a Rhodes tailor shop: Order your summers suit. Because is big rush we will execute customers in strict rotation.

In an East African newspaper: A new swimming pool is rapidly taking shape since the contractors have thrown in the bulk of their workers.

A sign posted in Germany's 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 Mehtodists.

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 the window of a Swedish furrier: Fur coats made for ladies out of their own skin.

On the box of a clockwork toy: Guaranteed to work throughout its useful life.

Detour sign in Kyushu, Japan: Stop: Drive Sideways.

In a Swiss mountain inn: Special today - no ice cream.

In a Tokyo bar: Special cocktails for the ladies with nuts.

In a Copenhagen airline ticket office: We take your bags and send them in all directions.

 

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LMFAO here @ that!!!!!!!!!!!! OMG my stomach hurts!!!!!!!!!!!!

hahaahahahaha!! thats class!!!!! :lol: :lol:

:lol: I love those!

that was the best laugh i've had in ages!! i printed them out to look at them whenever i need cheering up :)

There were some of those type of things in the Bathroom Book that I have. Hilarious :lol: