Lost in the translation

Wednesday, March 19th, 2003 | Giggles

I LOVE seeing mis-translations of english phrases when I go to non english speaking countries but this might be my favorite… This was the front page of ‘Der Spiegel’s’ web site (kind of the German version of Time Magazine):

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The follow on page with the full article had it right but thats what happens when you don’t speak the language… Too funny

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