This is without a doubt the most obscure and just plain horrible translation I’ve found so far for my Lost in Translation Series. What sets this translation, found on a card at a Düsseldorf International Airport bistro, apart, is that I can’t see how the translation came about! Some translation program or reference book must…
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Lost in Translation Series: “Happy New Jear”
Ahhhh, the Wiener Linien… Perpetrators of two out of the three sightings involved in my “Lost in Translation” series so far. Here’s the third, and possibly worst one! “Happy New Jear”!? Everyone knows this… Come on! You could have given all eight million plus Austrians a multiple choice quiz on this one and I bet…
newkai.com is Ready for New Year’s Eve and the Rest of Winter Break!
Just as in the past, newkai.com is going to cover this Winter Break in Vienna, from December 29 to January 16. Here are some of the highlights: In addition to hundreds of photos throughout my time in Vienna, there will be video coverage of New Year’s Eve and possibly other nights as well. Like this…
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Lost in Translation Series: “Here Stops the Christmas Tram”
This past summer I began posting examples of botched translations I stumbled upon around Vienna. First there was the city’s public transit operator, Wiener Linien, which posted thousands of signs in ugly English. There was also the city’s international tennis tournament that “went a noun.” Today my friend Kathi sent me a photo she took…
Vienna Trip XI
I’ve been throwing a bunch of dates around as to when I’ll be in Vienna. I finally decided to check my tickets, so I can now officially announce I’ll be in Vienna from December 29 to January 16. And I also can announce I’ve never been more excited to travel anywhere my entire life. That’s…
Top 5 Things Facebook Needs to Fix
5. Facebook has gone global… Its contact information should too. Originally Facebook was only home to American college students, a group in which everyone uses AIM. Now there are members from all around the world. And just like no one in the US has ever heard of Skype and MSN Messenger, no one in Croatia…
YouTube Beats Out Vaccine for Cancer-Causing STD
“YouTube, the video-sharing Web site recently acquired by Google Inc. for $1.65 billion, beat out a vaccine that prevents a cancer-causing sexually transmitted disease and a shirt that simulates a hug to grab top honors as Time magazine’s Invention of the Year for 2006.” That’s what I got to read in my local newspaper yesterday…
Handbills Banned on One Side of Mariahilfer Straße
Ducking from and slipping on handbills is going to be a thing of the past on one side of Mariahilfer Straße, Vienna’s busiest shopping street. Why only one side? Because the street forms the border between two of Vienna’s districts, and only one of these has banned their distribution. Mariahilf, Vienna’s 6th District, run by…