Showing posts with label Language. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Language. Show all posts

Sunday, July 9, 2017

Exit in Chinese


For those who know Chinese ...
I photographed this funny exit sign in Málaga Cathedral, Málaga, Spain in 2017 June.

Instead of blaming the clueless Spanish sign maker,
perhaps the whip should be applied to Google.

Do a Google translate of the Spanish word "Salida" into Chinese, and you get 產量.
The Spanish sign maker was merely following the maxim "In Google We Trust" ...
not appropriate when inside a cathedral  :-)

(產量 means something along the line of: Production output / yield ... not "Exit")


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Wednesday, April 19, 2017

How to count 97 in French


I was interested in learning French
after seeing this joke:

3 dogs are competing in a swimming race.

They are:
An English dog named "one two three".
A German dog named "eins zwei drei".
And a French dog named "un deux trois".

The dogs all swim across a lake.

The English dog finishes first.
The German dog finishes second.
But the French dog is nowhere to be found.

Why?
Because un deux trois quartre cinq 😊

But it wasn't a joke
when I learned that to count to 97,
you say 4 * 20 + 10 + 7.

I had a 6ure
and 5 to my knees
and pray God to 7 the French language on fire ...

I had e9.


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Monday, April 3, 2017

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