Sundown today marks the beginning of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan (رمضان). Rather than repeat myself for no particular reason, I will wish رمضان مبارك to those who are fasting and point anyone who’s interested to last year’s post on the subject.
Monthly Archives: June 2014
رمضان ۱٤۳۵
Today in bad translations
This is actually a week or so old, but:
That’s a catering card that one assumes is supposed to be placed in front of a tray full of meatballs, but then somebody had the bright idea to translate the transliteration ميت بول, and lo and behold, if you translate it, you get “Paul is dead.” Unless Paul died making the meatballs, or Paul was killed for the meat (you gotta tell ’em! ميت بول is people!), this seems pretty unfortunate to me.