Today’s Language Log cracked me up – there have been a few very good posts of late which display some of the excellent mistranslations found in translations from Chinese to English (the phrase in this post’s title is referenced in another Language Log post), but today’s had some really good ones from some instructions for a Cisco switch.
From the post, we find that if you buy a Cisco switch, you may be fortunate enough to get gems like:
- “for glue the sex rubber mat (be applicable to 16/24 give cones change the machine)”, and
- “a fast ether lord fucking net ascending”
I think now would be a good time for my friend Rob, net geek and master of all personal technologies, to explain just exactly what alternate uses these Cisco products actually have…
I mean, I never thought buying a switch could be so, um, exciting…
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