Candidates' names are tough in Chinese

[Suzie]

Candidates' names are tough in Chinese (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070626/ap_on_el_pr/lost_in_translation;_ylt=AnhXxP3wOZYj07jNq31vRQ8DW 7oF)

AP - Tue Jun 26, 8:45 AM ET BOSTON - Mitt Romney's been called many things as he runs for president, but chances are "Sticky Rice" isn't one of them.

[Lazarus]

And out of all the comic translations of the other politicians, this one is just so ironic...

Fred Thompson might be read as "Virtue Soup." Virtue Soup! That's why Fred is going to win it all... Mr Virtue!

:claps:

[BaronKelan]

Here's a thoguht, to vote they must be citizens. To be citizens they must be able to read and speak English. So, publish the darned ballots in English and let the candidates' names be written as they should be, as they are.

Oh yeah, I know, that's not sensitive and PC.

[Wolfcounsel]

PFFFFT! to those Chinese characters. What BaronKelan said. And if you are eligible to vote and your English sucks, too bad so sad!

[Maggie_T]

What the Counselor said. Can we please stop pandering to Asian-Americans who should know better than not being able to speak, read, write English?

Jesus, there's just no phukking end to the amount of pandering and sucking up politicians and bureaucrats are willing to go through. :flame:

[ThomasMore]

Ditto to Baron, Wolf and Maggie.

[Timberwolf]

Ditto what Baron, Counselor, Magster and Thomas said.

Print the ballots in English...you can't read it, you don't vote. There, problem solved.

[Maggie_T]

If you can't read it, you shouldn't vote. Go vote some place where they speak your non-English language.

[Sarah]

Hey my engrish is good. :biggrin:

[DesertFox]

:lol:

[DeclinetoState]

But perhaps the most perplexing translation would be for Boston Mayor Thomas Menino's name, which could be read as "Sun Moon Rainbow Farmer" or "Imbecile," or "Barbarian Mud No Mind of His Own."
I wonder what Ted Kennedy's name comes out as.

[Timberwolf]

"Swims Well Drives Badly"?

[Wolfcounsel]

"Hey my engrish is good. :biggrin:" --Sarah

Even with your Japanese accent!:evilgrin:

Japanese speaking Spanish--

Ros Perros der curro no son perros. Son Ranas.



Chinese speaking Spanish--

Los pelos del culo no son pelos. Son lanas.



Translation--

The dogs of the brash one are not dogs. They are frogs.

Of course, the Chinese translates to "The hairs of the butt are not hairs. They are woolens."

The Japanese translates better.<!-- / message -->

[Wolfcounsel]

"I wonder what Ted Kennedy's name comes out as." --DeclinetoState


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[Suzie]

Hey my engrish is good. :biggrin:

When I worked at the airport there was a Chinese guy who gave flying lessons and he had business cards printed. They said...

FRIGHT INSTRUCTOR :lol:

[Timberwolf]

LOL, Sooz!

[BIGIRON]

Ted Kennedy: What Bridge?
Hillary Clinton: Satan's bride
John Edwards: Gay hair
Nanci Pelosi: Soulless bitch
George Bush: Closet Liberal

[Timberwolf]

Harry Reid - Short Brain Embezzles Much
Nancy Pelosi - Datsueba (The Old Hag of Hell)
Ted Kennedy - Swims Well Drives Poorly
WhoreGay W. Boooosh - Yutz (oops...sorry, that's Yiddish :D )
Hillary Clinton - Mysteriously People Die
Bill Clinton - Cigar Tastes of Crap
John Edwards - Breck Girl (wow a perfect translation!!)
Elizabeth Edwards - Ogreish Harpie Who Overbears
Barak Obama - Black Man Too White (?? I don't get it...:biggrin: )

[DeclinetoState]

Paris Hilton: Fake Blonde with Fake Brain

[DoctorDoom]

But perhaps the most perplexing translation would be for Boston Mayor Thomas Menino's name, which could be read as "Sun Moon Rainbow Farmer" or "Imbecile," or "Barbarian Mud No Mind of His Own."The last two are fitting, but then all Massholechusetts politicos fit the description.

[Tazeeyore]

Hey my engrish is good. :biggrin:

So is your attitude and your philisophical leanings little lady! :claps:

[Timberwolf]

Hey my engrish is good. :biggrin:
My Chinese...not so much. :D I have to say, you're a 'good fit' here.