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23 Poorly Translated Asian T-Shirts The World Needs to See

My best friend went to Asia and all I got was this lousy t-shirt...

You’ve all heard the horror stories about some dude who went to get a tattoo that says “peace” in Mandarin Chinese and left with the words “angry sexy fire robot” displayed on his skin forever.

It’s rarely considered that this sort of thing could also happen in reverse on the other side of the globe though, with the lovely folk of Asia sporting phrases in English that sound more like the work of a random word generator than Plato or Aristotle.

As is humanity though, of course this is the case – though we’re not talking tattoos here. It turns out that across the continent of Asia you can find some rather, err, special t-shirts that have taken on the language of English and gloriously failed. Here are just a few…

1) Errr…

 

 

2) A motto to live by

 

3) We assume that we are “it” in this case…

 

 

4) What this was meant to say?

 

5) Fair enough

 

 

6) Happy fucking Easter

 

7) Fart sexy style

 

 

8) Us on a hangover

 

9) Fuck

 

 

10) Not that lucky though

 

11) We mean… This could be true?

 

 

12) Firm statements

 

13) Not a good t-shirt

 

 

14) When you’re too broke to afford a translator…

 

15) That is the general aim of perfume

 

 

16) Don Rabbit

 

17) Factual

 

 

18) Oh dear

 

19) Confusing, disturbing, terrifying…

 

 

20) When the t-shirt maker lives by the motto they stitch…

 

21) Someone tell her

 

 

22) Literally baffled

 

23) A good question

 

 

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