Bad Translation
Yes, that is an actual sign found in a secluded place in The University of Melbourne. It’s almost as if someone insert the Mandarin phrase into an online translation service and just copied the output.
Almost… as Google Translate gave even worse results:
Equally bad translation
Mar 31
Recently there has been a lot of commotion about the usage of the English language to teach Science and Mathematics in Malaysia. The government says having such policy will improve our English as a whole.
I shall not discuss the merits or disadvantage of the policy here. What I will do, is show you how bad the problem is:
Kapsyen? Diz ma Ingeris lvl!
This note is found on the roller blind of a shop in Malacca, in a relatively new mall. Again, it’s not that hard to figure out which mall is it, because there are only so many there.
Wrong spellings and bad grammar aside, at least they can still post a note in English. A more serious example is described by a doctor, who has a temporary staff who doesn’t comprehend basic English conversation.
The worst is that you only need to do a basic Google search to know how bad our English standard is in Malaysia.
Despite the severity of the problem, we still have Kerismuddin as our Education Minister. Again, Malaysia Boleh! Visi 2020 yo!
