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Best Arabic Translation Fails

We all love us some Arabic-to-English mistranslation lulz… here are our latest gems.

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16/06/2014 21:53

If you own some sort of institution and you've put money into it you would think that you would at least maybe want to double check when translating, but no, no. Language and grammer are merely a suggestion, as evidenced by these ridiculously perfect translation mishaps...

 And then you eated it...

Still better than sleep paralysis...
Whoever dealt it, smelled it...
One Ling to rule them all...
 Is that you Sweeney Todd?
I speak smoke very best.
 Err, don't think they're slow, they're dead.
Egyptian education system...
Where did Abdullah go?
Nein out of ten dentists recommend...

Photos orginally posted on HumanityCanWait.


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