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Mistranslations

The message you wanted to convey to your clients may not be the message they are reading. Read these hilarious mistranslations and you may decide that the cost of having your documents professionally translated is quite inexpensive.

In a Bucharest hotel:
'The lift is being fixed for the next day. During that time we regret that you will be unbearable'

In an Elevator in Belgrade:
'To more the cabin, push button for wishing floor. If the cabin should enter more persons, each one should press a number of wishing floor. Driving is then going alphabetically by national order'

Hotel in Paris:
'Please leave your values at the front desk'

Hotel in Athens:
'Visitors are expected to complain at the office between the hours of 9 and 11am daily'

On the menu of a Swiss Restaurant:
'Our wines leave you nothing to hope for'

Tailor's shop in Hong Kong:
'Ladies may have a fit upstairs'

In a Bangkok dry cleaner's outlet:
'Drop your trousers here for best results'

Sign in the Black Forest in Germany:
'It is strictly forbidden on our black forest camping site that people of different sex, for instance, men and women, live together in one tent unless they are married with each other for that purpose'

Hong Kong dentist sign:
'Teeth extracted by the latest Methodists'

Advertisement for donkey rides in Thailand:
'Would you like to ride on your own ass?'

A Copenhagen airline says:
'We take your bags and send them in all directions'

In a Norwegian cocktail lounge:
'Ladies are requested not to have children in the bar'

Office of a Roman doctor:
'Specialist in women and other diseases'

In an Acapulco hotel:
'The manager has personally passed all the water served here'

Shop in Majorca:
'English well talking' and 'Here speeching American'

Instructions on medication:
'1 tablet 3 times a day until passing away. For prevention of nocturnal cough, 1 tablet more at bedtime'

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