smile when communicating with foreigners.

blacknapkins

http://www.peacefulrise.org/2008/07/18/interact-with-foreigners-olympics-propaganda/

I Am Spartacus

Fuck that.

JordyWordy

Etiquette for Interacting with Handicapped Athletes:

"...and do not use insulting or discriminatory contemptuous or derogatory terms to address the disabled. Say things such as, “You are amazing,” or “You are really great.”

When chatting with the visually impaired, do not say things like “It’s up ahead,” or “It’s over there.”

When chatting with athletes who are paraplectic in their upper body, do not say things like “It’s behind you.”



good advice but still, i had to laugh at how directly its worded

Hinny

As a native speaker of Chinese, yeah, these translations always come across as laughable, but if you make an effort to understand and to speak the language, a lot of it will make sense when people realise it's come about this way cos of Chinese philosophy.

JordyWordy

Hinny wrote:

As a native speaker of Chinese, yeah, these translations always come across as laughable, but if you make an effort to understand and to speak the language, a lot of it will make sense when people realise it's come about this way cos of Chinese philosophy.

i genuinely do understand that, and think the posters a good idea, i just wasnt prepared for reading it thats all.

Collin

Don't wear green

Oh wait, that's another list.

Hinny, you make an excellent point.

Hinny

Collin wrote:

Don't wear green

Oh wait, that's another list.

Hinny, you make an excellent point.

Still, they are bloody funny. Moreso when it's not just a manner thing and an outright mistranslation