Friday, October 10, 2008

Translation Woes

I suppose I could start a lot of these entries with that header. Sometimes I don't even see the translation errors; sometimes I've got so used to a particular misuse that it doesn't register.

The other day I needed to make a stop at the public toilet (50 cents to use) in the train station and this caught my eye:


What kind of role does the tissue want to play? The hand towel role? The wet wipe role? The ingenue role?
We'll hope it is the role of a lifetime.

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