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Message 945331 - Posted: 6 Nov 2009, 0:17:57 UTC
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"Keep Right"
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Message 945337 - Posted: 6 Nov 2009, 0:53:06 UTC

RV parking only.
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Message 945344 - Posted: 6 Nov 2009, 1:17:59 UTC - in response to Message 945337.  

Residents will flip you the bird if you bring your truck here.


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Message 945358 - Posted: 6 Nov 2009, 3:32:42 UTC

No Tanks down this street.
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Message 945366 - Posted: 6 Nov 2009, 4:14:22 UTC

House movers bear right.
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Message 945372 - Posted: 6 Nov 2009, 4:40:20 UTC

MMHH, now how I am I to get my monthly supply of chocolate?
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Message 945382 - Posted: 6 Nov 2009, 5:35:21 UTC

Yo mama goes right!
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Message 945397 - Posted: 6 Nov 2009, 7:46:22 UTC
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Please to keep the mashing together places and then, with the kindly trucks, on the left.
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Message 945400 - Posted: 6 Nov 2009, 8:08:44 UTC

Bugs Bunny was here...
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Message 945427 - Posted: 6 Nov 2009, 14:20:43 UTC

How ever armoured trucks full of money are allways welcome.
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Message 945447 - Posted: 6 Nov 2009, 16:10:06 UTC - in response to Message 945427.  

Keep your vehicle to the left. you may become sterile from the radioactive squirrels on the right


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Message 945501 - Posted: 6 Nov 2009, 21:48:51 UTC



"If it's not Scottish, it's crap!"

(for those wondering it's a line from a SNL skit-not meant to be offensive to anyone)


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Message 945512 - Posted: 6 Nov 2009, 22:49:15 UTC

Thanks for all the entries! I'll be announcing the winner in a quarter of an hour or so. Last-minute attempts still welcome...
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Message 945521 - Posted: 6 Nov 2009, 23:39:59 UTC - in response to Message 945317.  

Very good entries again.

Third place goes to Carlos with a careless-summary type of mistranslation:
RV parking only.

Second place goes to uli with the desperate:
MMHH, now how I am I to get my monthly supply of chocolate?

And the winner is Steven Meyer with his exquisite oriental politeness rendered inscrutable through obfuscation:
Please to keep the mashing together places and then, with the kindly trucks, on the left.

The picture is from this BBC article - the text which actually appeared on the sign was from an email response:

I am not in the office at the moment. Send any work to be translated.

The sign would not be easy to translate well, as the English is quite bad. You can have a "building site" which attracts heavy vehicles or a "residential area" which does not. The missing full stop is careless too.

Thanks to all of you for joining in this round. Over to you, Steven!
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Message 945568 - Posted: 7 Nov 2009, 3:48:01 UTC - in response to Message 945521.  

And the winner is Steven Meyer with his exquisite oriental politeness rendered inscrutable through obfuscation:
Please to keep the mashing together places and then, with the kindly trucks, on the left.


Thanks, Michael, I have actually seen such exquisite oriental politeness, except that I added the part about the "kindly trucks".

Will post in a little while.
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Message 945599 - Posted: 7 Nov 2009, 5:07:29 UTC

OK, have a go at this...


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Message 945600 - Posted: 7 Nov 2009, 5:16:52 UTC - in response to Message 945599.  

NOOOOO!

I said mashed POTATOES!
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Message 945605 - Posted: 7 Nov 2009, 5:49:10 UTC


Take this and that, You pog.
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Message 945606 - Posted: 7 Nov 2009, 5:49:33 UTC - in response to Message 945599.  
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She's only warming up till you get home buddy!
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Message 945622 - Posted: 7 Nov 2009, 7:28:43 UTC

Don´t mess with a texan cowgirl!!!
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