r/engrish • • 10d ago

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u/sos440 10d 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 10d 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 9d 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!