A beautiful lost-in-translation moment: tried to order “rice noodles” but the very kind service worker couldn’t understand me. She took out her audio translator, spoke briefly into it, and an automated voice replied to me: “you’ve chosen chaos”.
— Sara Germano (@germanotes) February 13, 2022
Always an adventure when translating food names! I used to go to a marathon about five hours’ drive from Beijing, and it was always wild to see what their translation app came up with for the English names of the food in the hotel. These two were pasta and ribs: pic.twitter.com/bbrYmH3GxG
— Matt McCarron (@mattglobal) February 13, 2022
I swear this is not my fault pic.twitter.com/S0AZOObGXW
— Scott Stinson (@scott_stinson) February 12, 2022
This screengrab from @markmcmorris’ Instagram is my favorite image today. pic.twitter.com/FZILPdbod4
— John Branch (@JohnBranchNYT) February 13, 2022