Archive of posts about humor
Posted on October 19, 2016
This post won’t teach you anything, but I hope it makes you laugh a bit!
You don’t have to go far in the language learning community for people to make fun of some of the phrases the popular site Duolingo uses in its exercises. But today a friend tipped me off to a Tubmlr site dedicated specifically to this phenomenon: Weird Duolingo Phrases.
Continue reading `Weird Duolingo phrases for the win` →
Filed under:
duolingo
funny
humor
translations
Posted on May 29, 2015
Pungent Shellfish: Cuba’s new specialty.
This was the menu for our “fancy” dinner on our honeymoon in Havana, Cuba in April. I rarely point out translation errors to restaurant staff, but this one was serious enough I decided to point it out. But they didn’t seem to care. Perhaps they didn’t grasp the meaning their bad translation was conveying.
Continue reading `New on the Menu: Pungent Shrimp!` →
Filed under:
Bad Translations
cuba
humor
Image
spanish
translation
Posted on May 27, 2015
Is the sentiment lost if the sentence doesn’t make any sense?
Would you repost a meme with an error like this one? Why or why not? Comment below.
Continue reading `Would you repost a meme fail?` →
Filed under:
humor
meme fail
Image
Posted on May 20, 2015
A sign found at the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris. I guess they’ve had enough with those pesky visitors!
Continue reading `Visitors banished from Cathedral of Notre Dame` →
Filed under:
Bad Translations
france
french
humor
Image
translation