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Old Dec 7, 2011 | 7:15 am
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Originally Posted by Pickles
This is a symptom of the same mindset that makes some Japanese company or another take out a full page ad in the Japan Times or other English language newspaper and neglect to have the English copy proof-read by a native speaker with the result that the company just spent tens of thousands of dollars to put up a page full of gibberish that doesn't quite get the intended message across.
This kills me (and not just because I'm a translator). Every native English speaker working with people who don't understand translation has horror stories.

I rather quickly noticed the Engrish for that ad.
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