Oddity within translation conventions

[mrkun]

Can anyone explain how the error described in this article would have occurred?

 

[Vegitto]

Originally posted by: mrkun
Can anyone explain how the error described in this article would have occurred?

Well, I know that in Latin (which is not related to Chinese IIRC), black is niger.

And niger looks (and sounds) a lot like nig[/i]ger.

 

[xtknight]

Well, "black" in, AFAIK, many other languages is a word similar to the 'bad word' used in that article, and "black" may have been confused with "dark". (It was probably supposed to be "dark brown".) I don't speak any Chinese at all, though I've read my share of Engrish.

 

[EKKC]

i just think somebody got tired of all the "me luv u looong time" jokes and decided its time to return the favor

 

[Geocentricity]

In Chinese, if someone wanted to point out to someone something, they could say "nay-guh". Lets say the maker asked the designer which shade of brown they wanted. If presented with a panel of assorted brown colors, the designer might've pointed at a specific shade and said "nay-guh" (meaning that one).

 

[Mo0o]

My dad a lso told me that when he first started learning english in china, they were told african americans were called "n1ggers". Maybe the factory workers were refering to that old system