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A contractor was asked to stencil “No Smoking” in Arabic on the side of a truck and this is the result.
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Someone please tell me how to smoke in Arabic so I can be sure I’m not doing it.
hee hee.. I’ seen whut you done there..
I know how to smoke Afghan.
I’ll join you.
What is this? A triple-nested fail? Misspelled “Arabic” (which shouldn’t have been there in the first place) and then on top of all the udder stuff, it’s not really much of an EngRish, but a total FA!L..
Not to mention that nosmoking is not a word.
Nosmo, B.B’s unknown brother.
I’m transliterating here (since I’m not on a computer with an Arabic IME):
Diesel fuel = waquud diizal
no smoking = la tedkhiin
!لا يدخنون وقود الديزل
I was going for that, but I guess the plural imperative is more appropriate, but I’m not sure about using an idaafa for diesel, since it’s an adjective.
shopped
Contractor fail in Arabic.
فشل
He left out the quotation marks! That’s always the sign of over-literal interpretation.
I can believe this happened. My manager once did computer consulting work in Saudi Arabia some years ago, and was working in conjunction with a construction crew. One of the workers was given a bucket of bolts and a nut on which the bolts should fit. However, the bolts were slightly too big to fit and needed to be trimmed down in order to fit in the structure that the construction company was trying to build.
So the supervisor gives the instruction, “I need you to make it so these bolts fit inside this nut so we can use the bolts in our building project.” Thinking this would take all day, the supervisor left to go work elsewhere and left the man to his work.
Upon returning 30 minutes later to see how the worker was making out with the work, the man was sitting in a chair with his feet propped up on the table, the bucket of bolts sitting there beside him, untouched.
When the supervisor asked the worked why he was sitting there not working, the man smiled and produced the nut he was given, which was now slightly hollowed out so that all the bolts now fit, unmodified, inside the nut.
True story that one. He told us during our lunch break about that and some other exploits he had during his six-month summer there. But the moral of the story is, better be specific with your instructions.