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Monday, January 16, 2012

Something Lost In The Translation

From a department store in Osaka, Japan, via Counting Cats:



I read somewhere, can't find it now, that there is a type of post-New Year's sale in Japan of overstocked goods that is in fact pronounced as "foo kin." Spelling it out in phonetic English, probably not a good idea.

Of course, this is far from the first time that such translations have led to comic results.

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