Thursday, September 08, 2005

Bake the Call Phone





This is a perfect example of when someone has no knowledge in foreign language and tries to translate word-by-word (or in this case, character-per-word).

In Chinese, the restroom’s hand drier is called “”, which literally translated as “hand baking machine”. Unfortunately, mobile phone in Chinese is called “”, which means “hand machine”.

This would be a great ad for when Verizon and Pillsbury merges together. Instead of hearing “Can you hear me now? Good!” It will be “What are you baking?” Be careful the next time some presses the Poppin’ Fresh’s belly. Instead of his giggling, there will be a custom ring tone chiming out of his butt.

(thanks to Katrina for the photos)

2 Comments:

Blogger K said...

Hi Tian, thanks for putting it up! (I've linked it here: http://www.katrinagulliver.com/2005/09/bake-hand-phone.html)

3:39 AM  
Blogger Carl Weaver said...

But I already baked the call-phone:
http://carlweaver.blogspot.com/2005/08/swimming-with-cell-phones.html

Cheers,
Carl

7:38 PM  

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