Wednesday, July 19, 2006

Went to lunch with a few colleagues. We went to a place that served Pho (Vietnamese noodle soup). The restaurant also provides chopsticks, so we of course used them.

On the chopstick wrapper was this text:

Welcome to Chinese Restaurant.
Please try your Nice Chinese Food with Chopsticks.
the traditional and typical of Chinese glorious history
and cultual.

Makes me wonder how close we really get when we translate the Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek of the Bible.

Update (2006-07-19): Eagle-eyed ricoblog reader David comments that "cultural" should really be "cultual". I was so enamored with the grammatical peculiarities I missed the typo! It's been corrected above.

Post Author: rico
Wednesday, July 19, 2006 9:30:39 PM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00) 

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Wednesday, July 19, 2006 9:48:30 PM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)
Are you sure that's the exact quotation? Most wrappers I've seen render the last couple of lines as

"the traditional and typical of Chinese glonous history
and cultual."

...but maybe I was just lucky...
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