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Lost in translation: Hilarious English fails from around the world

We’ve uncovered some of the world’s funniest English translations… Enjoy!
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The English language is hard to master at the best of times so spare a thought for the folks trying to translate it from a foreign language.

And there’s nothing funnier than an accidental slip-up.

We’ve uncovered some of the world’s funniest English translations… Enjoy!

Everything is better when it is a little bit fancy.

Despite the sign not being grammatically correct, we wholeheartedly agree with the message. Don’t smoke, you guys.

As long as you fall in carefully… what could possibly go wrong?

I know this fast food chain is usually “loving it”… but we think maybe not this time.

That’s one way to make sure everything is clean.

We can’t fault phonetic spelling.

Yes, please don’t do that.

We like to think it should be forbidden by law to be a criminal… Wait, what?!

Sorry dumb, you can’t sit with us.

Oh my, we don’t think we would want a grandma-flavoured jam, even if she does taste like black raspberries… Also what even are black raspberries!?

We learnt from a young age to always be careful and falling into a river should be no different.

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