[WalterBright]

My favorite mistranslation came from the first time the Olympics were in China. One of the food vendors hung up a banner "401 Not Found".

[dang]

Other examples here, including the famous Welsh road sign translation ("I am not in the office at the moment"):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21502019

[closewith]

Or this picture which was posted on Reddit today: https://i.redd.it/2duk9a273o9a1.jpg

[dang]

Yes!

[simonh]

This one is my favourite, along similar lines:

https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=11907

[astrange]

There was also the saga of Chinese MTL translating “dried” as “fuck”:

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/005195.h...

[dkdbejwi383]

I’d be interested in a source for this if you have one

[coupdejarnac]

This stuff happens in China all the time. If you visit, you'll surely see some hilarious mistranslations.

Probably not what the above poster was referring to, but here's a sample:

https://www.reddit.com/r/engrish/comments/q1g8sh/a_restauran...

[dumb1224]

Me too. It was a very old meme from my college days in China back in 2000. There were only very few at that time and one was that. I've always wondered if it's true.

[WalterBright]

It was a photo posted on Reddit at the time, if I recall correctly.