The cultural guarantee could personally take the form of the object made by humankind, did not move or move that took the form of unity or the group, or a part-a part or the remnants the rest of them, that be aged at least 500 years.
Have any idea what the paragraph means? No? Neither do I. But it’s on the welcome page of Jakarta Tourism website. I have my suspicion they wrote the contents in Indonesian, then used Google Translate to convert everything into English and that’s that. Couldn’t they hire someone who actually know how to write in English? With the bad english rendering it almost useless to anyone looking for information on Jakarta, the website seems just like another unecessary spending by the Government.
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Kerinchi Guy // April 29, 2009 at 5:32 pm |
heh heh. yes. that is hilarious.
but i think it cannot beat this.
this is in a chinese city somewhere. i forgot where.
the sign is above a ‘dining hall’. that is what the chinese characters apparently say. the sign makers put the characters through a ‘translation server’ and when ‘translate server error’ came up, they assumed that that is the translation. here is the picture.
just goes to show that it is wise to check in both directions.
jadearlindita // April 29, 2009 at 6:18 pm |
It’s funny when you’re not a citizen of the country
When you are, it becomes annoying and you just feel like bitching about people being incompetent :p
Kerinchi Guy // April 29, 2009 at 6:33 pm |
yes, jade. i agree with you. it is not at all funny. sorry, my hilarity got transferred to your post when i thought of the picture that i linked to.
i do understand why you are annoyed. your post is no laughing matter though the picture is.
jadearlindita // April 29, 2009 at 11:28 pm |
No no.. it _is_ funny. I’m laughing at the sheer incompetence and absurdity
Toshi // May 11, 2009 at 1:52 pm |
They should’ve hired me… I’m unemployed now :p
Just kiddin, hehe.
Oh well…instead of hiring ppl, they could instead inflate the website’s expenses and redirect the money to their pockets, could they not?
That’s how Indonesian govt works, in case u’re not aware of that.