Lost in translation

[Bernard]

A while back, Bill posted a thread with photos of signs in Japan that were translated into English and it was very funny. I was looking at Hobby Search for figures and came upon the Tomytec collection and I began to laugh because it reminded me of Bill's thread.

 

It describes the figures as "Human people standing". Which bring me to the question, what other types of people are there, I assume they would all have to be human. All their figures are marked and packaged this way. ;D

 

http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10073153

[bill937ca]

http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10081188

 

This should be right up your allley, Bernard.  "The human 031 Walking People."

[Guest ___]

Well, from a technical writing standpoint of categorizing stock, if correctly written it could read as:

 

Humans, people standing

Humans, people walking

Animals, Apes standing

Animals, Apes walking

 

Since the Japanese struggle with partials and punctuation, missing a comma would not be all too hard especially if English is the second or third alphabet used.

[Guest ___]

私のホバークラフトは鰻でいっぱいです

[CaptOblivious]

私のホバークラフトは鰻でいっぱいです

 

My hoba craft is one defeat by eel.

;)

[Guest ___]

 

My hoba craft is one defeat by eel. ;)

 

And somewhere a fifteen year old school girl is in hiding, Don.