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Sunday, June 16, 2013

Old Days Fish


I don't know that I would have chosen the name "Old Days Fish" for my fresh fish market.  Something was obviously lost in translation...

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  1. yes it's lost in translation , in arabic it's sound ok but you know sometimes when you translate a brand name or a song from one language to another it sound ridiculous after the translation :)

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    1. Hi Mohamed - I saw a photo of a sign for a business that sold chicken meat. It read: "Sale of Chicken Murder." You can Google it and see the pic - it's the funniest one I've ever seen.

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  2. I love signs written in bad English. When I was a bit younger and was learning photography I read German camera brochures and the English was better than this but quite funny.

    So, lets laugh, but not so hard that they correct the signs.

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    1. I love signs like this too. I hope no one thinks I am poking fun at them - I just think it's cute!

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  3. Maybe they meant "Fish like back in the days?", hahaha, English is not my first language and sometimes its hard to translate something with the same meaning :P sf

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    1. Yes, I'm sure that is what it is meant to say - but it just doesn't work so well the way it came out.

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  4. 'Sale of chicken murder'??!! Oh my ..... I can't wait to show that one to my husband - he'll use it in his English language classes no doubt! Lolllllll

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