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NPR (via Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me) reports a Bejing restauranteur wanted to attract English-speaking patrons during the Olympics, so he typed the name of his restaurant into a translation web site, took what came out and had a sign made, to replace the Chinese one.

His restaurant is easy to find. It's the one called "Translation Server Error"

nitrah55 wrote:NPR (via Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me) reports a Bejing restauranteur wanted to attract English-speaking patrons during the Olympics, so he typed the name of his restaurant into a translation web site, took what came out and had a sign made, to replace the Chinese one.

His restaurant is easy to find. It's the one called "Translation Server Error"

Is the address 404 File Not Found?

The words "server" and "error" should not be that close when it comes to restaurants.

I once got a fortune cookie with the fortune:

Fortune not found

Abort? Retry? Cancel?

I saved it. It was so me...

the R and X rated versions are here (scroll down)

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/language ... 05195.html

MarleysGh0st wrote:

nitrah55 wrote:NPR (via Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me) reports a Bejing restauranteur wanted to attract English-speaking patrons during the Olympics, so he typed the name of his restaurant into a translation web site, took what came out and had a sign made, to replace the Chinese one.

His restaurant is easy to find. It's the one called "Translation Server Error"

Is the address 404 File Not Found?

IIRC, in the banter on the show they mentioned that the restaurant was just down the street from File Not Found (can't recall if they included the error number).

---Jay (If you know the year that Ban Biao, the Chinese historian died, you'll know the number of days until I get hung out to dry - I mean the airing of my show)