Pre-pandemic, I worked for Alibaba and traveled to China multiple times. I actually greatly enjoyed the mistranslations on signs and billboards. Not in a mean '

Pre-pandemic, I worked for Alibaba and traveled to China multiple times. I actually greatly enjoyed the mistranslations on signs and billboards. Not in a mean 'Im-better-than-thou' way, but as a point of reflection to a lot of the weird things and phrases _I_ use that are objectively sorta strange. Mistranslations are often eccentric and oddly eloquent in their own regard. I took as many pictures of them as I could and they're some of my favorite parts of traveling in Asia. Here are a few classics in my collection, my favorite being the dinner menu complete with an "Explosives" section: * https://ibb.co/P6VBtTL https://ibb.co/P6VBtTL * https://ibb.co/dcWqqNy https://ibb.co/dcWqqNy * https://ibb.co/PFVBCbt https://ibb.co/PFVBCbt Side note: I discovered when I used "mistranslations" to speak to non-native speakers overseas, they actually found it far easier to understand me than if I spoke "proper" english. Some of the language concepts (conjugation, verb tense) we have in English don't seem to exist in same forms as Asian languages.