Re:A museum dedicated to mistranslated Japanese phrases
by blululu on Thursday December 08, 2022 @08:14AM
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“Everything not saved will be lost forever” - Nintendo Cartridge.
Somehow we block out poetry in our own language, but translation it can pass through as a translation.
Re:A museum dedicated to mistranslated Japanese phrases
by YurgenJurgensen on Thursday December 08, 2022 @07:32AM
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Without context, it's still a reasonable translation. I guess the idiomatic English in that situation would be "When the coffee is gone, it's gone.", or maybe "Refills of coffee will not be provided".
Re:A museum dedicated to mistranslated Japanese phrases
by alistairSH on Thursday December 08, 2022 @08:38AM
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I’d love to see the original setting. Was the sign intended to tell the consumer that no fresh coffee would be made, or that there are no free refills? The museum setting (in front of an empty coffee maker) implies the first, but I suspect the second was intended?
Re:A museum dedicated to mistranslated Japanese phrases
by projektfu on Thursday December 08, 2022 @10:49AM
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It says, when this coffee has run out, it is finished.
Basically, this pot will not be refilled. I can imagine at a hotel where there is free coffee in the lobby but just in the morning.
Re:A museum dedicated to mistranslated Japanese phrases
by layer8 on Thursday December 08, 2022 @12:45PM
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It’s the coffee-pot equivalent of “while supplies last”.
Re:A museum dedicated to mistranslated Japanese phrases
by galgot on Thursday December 08, 2022 @09:39AM
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A haïku to leave before seppuku.
No more coffee is indeed catastrophic.
Re:A museum dedicated to mistranslated Japanese phrases
by torcete on Thursday December 08, 2022 @01:09PM
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Reminds me of the out of coffee scene from Airplane 2.
Re:A museum dedicated to mistranslated Japanese phrases
by naniwaduni on Thursday December 08, 2022 @07:50AM
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Honestly, the only mistranslation here is the extraneous full stop after the first clause. Replace it with a comma and it becomes a serviceable, if odd-sounding, English sentence that conveys the correct meaning.
>It's over.
Mistranslation or not, it has turned out into beautiful short form of poetry.