Comments on: Edible Boletus Soup http://blog.megdesk.com/funny-norwegian-soup-translation/ Meg, Expat Geek Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:51:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Michele http://blog.megdesk.com/funny-norwegian-soup-translation/#comment-19716 Michele Fri, 24 Jul 2009 08:57:51 +0000 http://blog.megdesk.com/?p=1418#comment-19716 This is hilarious! I think you made the right decision to avoid the soup... :-) This is hilarious! I think you made the right decision to avoid the soup… :-)

]]> By: Lorry http://blog.megdesk.com/funny-norwegian-soup-translation/#comment-19638 Lorry Mon, 20 Jul 2009 21:03:33 +0000 http://blog.megdesk.com/?p=1418#comment-19638 Thomas and I went to the gay animals exhibit a while back, when it was still going on at the Natural History Museum in Oslo. The permanent exhibits are only in Norwegian, but the gay animal stuff had translations, and they were horrible! It was actually easier for me to try to figure out the Norwegian, and this was before my Danish was at a very useful level. I was in Oslo for an interview, and I thought if I got the job, maybe I should volunteer to fix translations for the museum. At the maritime museum in Helsingør, their translations are mostly quite good, but there's a reference to a "hermaphrodite brig" that neither Thomas nor I could figure out, even with the Danish text right next to it. Thomas and I went to the gay animals exhibit a while back, when it was still going on at the Natural History Museum in Oslo. The permanent exhibits are only in Norwegian, but the gay animal stuff had translations, and they were horrible! It was actually easier for me to try to figure out the Norwegian, and this was before my Danish was at a very useful level. I was in Oslo for an interview, and I thought if I got the job, maybe I should volunteer to fix translations for the museum.

At the maritime museum in Helsingør, their translations are mostly quite good, but there’s a reference to a “hermaphrodite brig” that neither Thomas nor I could figure out, even with the Danish text right next to it.

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