OK, Chinese speakers...

**Hraesvelg** · 11-15-2011, 03:53 AM

Where did this translation go horribly wrong? What is it trying to say?

**Hessah** · 11-15-2011, 04:07 AM

Maybe they did the menus over the phone or something..

The fresh beef and egg SANDWICH got misheard as The Fresh beef and egg are managed...

like a chinese person might pronounce sandwich as "san-da-widge" so it's not that hard to think they got that wrong..

I'm just surprised they didn't say Club a managed too...

**Ralath** · 11-15-2011, 04:45 AM

It's the character 治 which is throwing everything off.

It only makes sense when it's used with 三文治 (which sounds like the word sandwich; actually, I don't use this term though I use a term that's really similar).

So when they tried to abbreviate the word and took out the 三文, the translator must have just gotten confused.

**Hessah** · 11-15-2011, 05:09 AM

Oh yeah! 治 can also be used in terms that has a similar meaning to managed LOL!

**a.L** · 11-15-2011, 05:32 AM

It's a ploy to confuse non-Chinese speakers

**Ralath** · 11-15-2011, 06:08 AM

Canto people don't call sandwiches 三文治 or 三明治, right？

**Hessah** · 11-15-2011, 08:44 AM

we do call it 三文治... and all those sandwiches with fillings would have the filling's name and 治 as like an abbreviation..

So the Chinese on that menu is how we would call all our sandwiches too..

**Hraesvelg** · 11-15-2011, 04:51 PM

Well, that makes sense.

**Loveless** · 11-15-2011, 05:22 PM

Originally Posted by Hraesvelg

Well, that makes sense.

It does?

**Hraesvelg** · 11-15-2011, 05:29 PM

Yeah. The one character by itself has a different meaning than with the other characters that means "sandwich". It appears that it's a common way to abbreviate it in context, but that wouldn't be picked up by some sort of mechanical translation tool like Google Translate.