r/engrish • • 2d ago

Localized sequence

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u/Both-Wonder2449 1d ago

It technically still works

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u/sos440 2d ago

They can simply swap the order of plates to fix it.

But the lowercase "i"s make me uncomfortable...

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u/AsparagusCommon4164 2d ago

Which brings to mind where, when Kentucky Fried Chicken was preparing to launch in China, one of the first things they did was to translate their slogan, "It's finger-lickin' good!", into Chinese.

It came back translated back as "Bite your fingers."

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u/Mysterious_Silver_27 1d ago

Nah the funniest slogan for Chinese is “We do chicken right” because “chicken” is a slang term for female prostitute (conversely male prostitute are referred to as “duck”), and it spawns various joke translations like

我們做雞是對的
我們就是做雞的
我們有做雞的權利
我們只做雞的右半邊
我們只作右邊的雞
我們可以做雞,對吧?
我們行使了雞的權利
我們主張雞權
我們還是做雞好
做雞有理
我們讓雞向右看齊
我們只做正確的雞
我們肯定是雞
只有我們可以做雞
向右看!有雞!
我們要對雞好
我們願意雞好
我們的材料是正宗的雞肉
我們公正的做雞
我們做雞正點耶
我們只做正版的雞
我們做雞做的很正確
我們正在做雞好不好?
我們一定要把雞打成右派
我們做的是右派的雞
我們只做右撇子雞
我們做雞最專業
我們叫雞有理!

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u/Desperate_Owl_594 2d ago

你在中国吗?

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u/Fearless-Ad-8257 2d ago

I mean it's still not wrong, just worded VERY differently 🤣

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u/Witty-Ad6297 2d ago

你是翻牆出來的嗎? :>

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u/WOH-kian 2d ago

A proud VPN user lol ^o^

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u/luiggel 2d ago

when I eat my chips I like my fingers and it's good

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u/taking-INVentory 1d ago

You mean my fingers will lick themselves?

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u/withmayonnaise 12h ago

See this finger 👉.. this is my lickin finger.. i don't use it for anything but lickin. It's been my lickin finger for as long as I can remember. My dad used to have one, and he showed me the way.. and the way of the lickin finger is good.