Beijing Olympics: Needing Work Signs For Understanding

One thing I love when I travel abroad is chuckling at all of the ridiculously bad translations from the native language into English.  If I spoke another language fluently enough I would be all about exploiting this weakness for my own financial benefit.  This is an issue in every city I travel to - I wonder if translations in the US into other languages at popular tourist destinations are just as bad?  Hmmm... anyone got an answer on this?  If I'm in a glass house maybe I shouldn't throw stones!

Here are some of the ones I've seen (or heard about) while in Beijing:

• "Waiting for Taxi Area"

• "For Your Safety, Please Do Not Scratch" (at Great Wall)

• "Habitual Abortionists Are Not Permitted" (at Great Wall, does this entail some sort of pelvic exam??)

• "Link Stove Up With Fruit Tree of Roast Duck" (at a restaurant)
  

• Keep of the Glass

And one of my favorites spied today at the Forbidden City:

Comments

[Austin]

I love stuff like this! Great post- it is always amusing to see the random assembly of English words in foreign countries, especially in Asia apparently...