Engrish.com<\/a> is a site that collects all those funny bits Japanese people write in English. I am pretty sure there is a similar site for those who laugh at the rest of the world trying to talk Japanese.<\/p>\nHave fun. :)<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n
I am sure everyone has noticed at some point how terrible are machine translations. It’s pretty tough to get a descent work done between two more or less related languages. But when you have to do the translation between two culturally opposite languages, you know you are in trouble. 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