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[findingthatperfectspot]

The one that was translated as 'I had sex with my mother as a child' is more properly translated as 'fried rice the way your mother used to make it when you were young', which is to say, home-style fried rice. I prefer the translation that was on the menu, though. :-)

[axltl]

In Portuguese we have a saying ‘traveled through the mayonnaise’ I have no idea why it’s that but essentially it means ‘you went way off topic’

[Gamesaucer]

Apparently the Chinese for "do" gets translated as "f-ck" a lot, because it _can_ mean that (similar to how "do" can be an innuendo in English) but whatever they use to translate gets the wrong translation of the word a lot and if they can't read English well enough to tell that it's wrong, you end up with that kind of thing.
EDIT: it seems like I may be wrong about this explanation, please read the replies to this as well.

[trixabellian]

fun fact: while undertale was being translated into japanese, toby had to change the name of the song death by glamour into "the glamorous battle of death" because death by glamour would translate into something along the lines of "death by big boobs"

[XeonAlpha]

Traveling in Japan you see a LOT of translation fails. My favorite was a sign in front of a temple that said “On top of the plate do not ride in the shoes.” It meant you need to remove your shoes before going inside but I was silently cackling.

[lizziefirkey]

I think I actually have the answer to your questions on the horse funeral one!

If you look at the bottom of the page, it has the "Obvious Plant" label. Obvious Plant creates funny things (from fake toys to signs) that are usually really odd. If you look them up, you'll see a lot of similar stuff!

[Acidfrog]

15:06 The best part of this is that the Finnish actually had a typo in it. They accidentally used the Swedish word for elevator (hiss), when it should be _hissi_ in this case. So not only was the translation clunky and bad, but the original warning was also bad.

[melissaharris]

As an American, I'm ok with changing the name to horse pirates.
Maybe the pirate's name was Jim and he returned from a horse funeral.
He has another one later

[elsagillsten]

20:40 I remember watching a movie on Netflix years ago and I think it was called “the ghost ship” or something like that and when the title came on screen the Swedish subtitles said “I am bored”

[Rinabow]

The Racist Park one intrigued me a little.
I'm not Chinese, but I do speak Japanese, and there's some crossover in the writing, so I understand a few things. To me, the letters 民族园 read as something like "citizen's park" or "aboriginal park". It feels like it means something along the lines of a park celebrating the heritage of the people of that place

[theuglypotato]

My favourite bubble tea shop has those plastic covers with quotes and nice messages on them .. only problem they are either really badly misspelled or dont make any sense. My favs i had so far have been: "have A day^-^" and " bubble tea is good er then no bubble tea!"

[AngelBirdo]

Fun animal fact!: Slow blinking at your cat is a very good way to tell them you love them and a way to get cats unfamiliar with you to warm up to you a little faster!

[pollitopapa]

In spanish, seno = boob. Suffix "-ote" means enlarged or big. Whoever tried to translate this typed senote instead of "cenote" (cave with lake usually found in the Yucatan Peninsula) both pronounced the same.

[chrisserrific]

To be fair, translating poems can be extremely tricky... if you want it to also be a poem in whatever language you're translating it to, while retaining its meaning. That is a big ask.

[alicelima]

1:20 well this one wasn't a bad translation. The person just got confused and thought that heterochomia and homophobia were the same thing. This post even became a meme here in Brazil, so whenever someone sees a animal, person or character with heterochomia on the internet we jokingly say like "OMG they have homophobia in their eyes! It's so pretty! 😍"

[zakuraRabbit]

Clearly the "Paul is dead" meatballs came to be when the restaurant posted on Facebook asking "Hey what is this in English?" and some random confused old person showed up thinking they were on the profile page of a family member and said "Paul is dead. Bless."

[momchi]

The meat of beehive grandmother is Bulgarian. It actually translates as grandma's beef, as in it advertises itself as traditional and how a grandma from a Bulgarian village would make it. No idea how they translated it that badly. Chicken constipation is just chicken casserole.
Nice to see Bulgaria show up though, even if for the wrong reasons.

[YennaAvyeon]

I'm a linguistics student, a translation major who's been watching nothing but the Click all week. Seeing this video pop up in my feed made me incredibly happy, because this proves there'll always be necessary jobs in this industry...

[tuliotonheiro]

Fun fact: some languages use the same word for fingers or toes. That's why foot finger is not so bad of a translation. For example, in Portuguese (I'm Brazilian), we say "dedos das mãos, dedos dos pés", were dedos may be about both fingers or toes, so we need to specify saying mãos (hands) or pés (feet)

[ACE-eszi]

4:45 The worst part is that these dishes are all Chinese rice dishes that have nothing to do with French fries.