Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Verbal Bloopers - English

There was a time I moonlighted as a translator in a government organisation. Having no translatory skills what-so-ever, I braved the crowd and landed a job where I was to translator and write speeches for Menteri and Pangarah from Malay to English and vise-verse.

Even before I could solemnly draw out my pen which is suppose to be mightier than sword, I was summoned to the desk of my boss..Ehmm..lady boss.


"Ha Siva...mari...duduk sini," she pointed me to a chair. I sat with a pin drop silence.

"Do you know what you are required to do? You have any idea the nature of your job and responsibility," she asked. I stared at her face like a wall clock.

"Actually...err..hmmm...No idea." She laughed, then took out a file, gave it to me and said, "Go translate this and show me."

I grabbed the Pink-Manila covered file, glazed, stood-up and as I was about to leave, she said, "Don't translate like they do in Hogn Kogn movies...okay."

I believe this is what she meant.

*“I threat you! I challenge you meet me on the roof tonight for a duet!”

*“I will kill you until you are dead from it!”

*“The bullets inside are very hot. Why do I feel so cold?”

*“I got knife scars more than the number of your leg’s hair!”

*“I am damn unsatisfied to be killed in this way.”

*“Fatty, you with your thick face have hurt my instep.”

*“I’ll fire aimlessly if you don’t come out!”

*“You are too useless. And now I must beat you.”

*“Gun wounds again?”

*“A normal person wouldn’t steal pituitaries.”

*“You always use violence. I should’ve ordered glutinous rice chicken.”

*“Take my advice, or I’ll spank you without pants.”

*“Beware! Your bones are going to be disconnected.”

*“Who gave you the nerve to get killed here?”

*“Quiet or I’ll blow your throat up.”

*“You daring lousy guy.”

*“Beat him out of recognizable shape!”

*“How can you use my intestines as a gift?”

*“Damn, I’ll burn you into a BBQ chicken!”

*“This will be of fine service for you, you bag of the scum. I am sure you will not mind that I remove your manhoods and leave them out on the dessert flour for your aunts to eat.”

*“Yah-hah, evil spider woman! I have captured you by the short rabbits and can now deliver you violently to your gynecologist for a thorough extermination.”

*“Greetings, large black person. Let us not forget to form a team up together and go into the country to inflict the pain of our karate feets on some of the giant lizard person.”

*Your spear is useless. You better use it for mixing excretory.

*Now I feel flatulent, and you did it.

*My innards have all been disturbed by him.

*That may disarray my intestines.

*I please your uterus. You kiss my toes. It’s fair.

*“This is the Martial Arts Competition, not a place for fighting!” (from Kung Fu)
PLEASE TRANSLATE.

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