Dynamic stew

Scarlet & Black 2013-10-25

Summary:

A Korean restaurateur, trying to make his menu more accessible for foreign customers, came up with bewildering English translations of some dishes. 엉터리 한식 메뉴판/MBC 방송캡쳐 1. 동태 찌게 [dong’tae jjigae: dynamic stew] dongtae 동태(凍太) or "frozen pollack" (a kind of fish) was misinterpreted as the homonym 動態 and translated as "dynamic"; “jjigae” means a [...]

Link:

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=8050

From feeds:

Gudgeon and gist » Language Log

Tags:

lost in translation

Authors:

Victor Mair

Date tagged:

10/25/2013, 05:55

Date published:

10/24/2013, 21:18