Lost in translation

[dr*audio]

I saw this ad on Cleveland Craigslist. I think the guy must have found the specs on a foreign language website and used Google or Babelfish to translate it; but it's funny!

http://cleveland.craigslist.org/ele/400504380.html

 

[BrocLuno]

That's a hoot. Need to keep that one around somewhere. I could remodel for some listings on eBay?

 

[onepixel]

I like the "Rattling/clinking degree." It's only 0.5%!

 

[dr*audio]

I like the "Rattling/clinking degree." It's only 0.5%!

That was my favorite, too!

 

[fiddlefye]

The translations from Japanese are particularly bizarre. I was looking at some stuff on the Japanese Yamaha website and the translation I was getting had me rolling around so hard I couldn't read. It would be difficult to write anything much funnier sometimes!

 

[whsh93a]

I saw this ad on Cleveland Craigslist. I think the guy must have found the specs on a foreign language website and used Google or Babelfish to translate it; but it's funny!

http://cleveland.craigslist.org/ele/400504380.html

The manuals from the 70's and 80's could be very funny.
I remember reading a warning in one of the early LASER disc manuals. it said (to paraphrase),

"Do not eat the LASER - it is made of poison"

DH

 

[similost]

I like the "Rattling/clinking degree." It's only 0.5%!

Must be the little bits rattling and clinking inside... the .05% must mean it's never been shipped through UPS.. guaranteed to turn into 100% if shipped.

 

[theophile]

What I like on the otherwise excellent k-nisi site is the google translation where there is always a reference to 'sea urchins'.(?)

 

[Dusty Chalk]

I started cutting and pasting my favourite parts out of that, but I ended up selecting mostly the entire post -- thanks for sharing!