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Saturday Night Live fails to make Sarah Palin look worse than the real Katie Couric interview.

Montcuq is a beautiful village in France in the Quercy. Thanks to a recent reader comment regarding funny or bad translations, I found a collection of videos about Montcuq on Youtube. Sorry to the non-French speakers, the video about Montcuq is only in French. I could have the Montcuq video subtitled on dotsub but even [...]

This fact was one of the other things I learned while teaching my students in Le Bataillet. Michel Drucker had both Serge Gainsbourg and Whitney Houston on for a joint interview. Michel Drucker is a known television host who does serious interviews but also cultural happenings. Serge Gainsbourg goes on to say some inappropriate things [...]

I have not seen it on TV but I have heard about this funny French commercial.

This time I found these pictures on a blog called englishturkey.com. I thought the blog was very funny and the pictures priceless. One is a funny translation but the other . ? !

Here is a link to the post from englishturkey.com. It is very funny.
http://www.englishturkey.com/content/welcom-turist-we-spik-inglish

Human rights violations and environmental concerns aside, is China really ready for the Olympics? Check out these pictures of poorly worded English translations.

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