This has got to be one of the silliest things I've ever seen. And I mean that in a good way. Oh, I can't explain it. Just click. Actually, not everyone loves it. One newsletter suggests that it's another example of how English-speakers equate poor English with low intelligence. But I also laugh just as hard at examples of American cross-cultural marketing arrogance, which leads to product names like the Chevy Nova (literally, "It doesn't go" in Spanish) or poorly translated campaigns like "Pepsi brings your ancestors back from the dead". Moral is: if it's not your first language, HIRE A TRANSLATOR.
Humor: March 2001 Archives
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This site is single-handedly ruining my productivity at work. Feed it any English text--song lyrics, marketing materials from your job, whatever--and see it mutate into something sublime.
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