{"id":2365,"date":"2021-04-29T11:25:26","date_gmt":"2021-04-29T19:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auerbach-intl.com\/?p=2365"},"modified":"2021-04-29T11:25:26","modified_gmt":"2021-04-29T19:25:26","slug":"april-friday-funnies-ask-for-bottled-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/auerbach-intl.com\/staging\/april-friday-funnies-ask-for-bottled-water\/","title":{"rendered":"April Friday Funnies &#8211; Ask for Bottled Water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4076\" src=\"https:\/\/auerbach-intl.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/auerbach-intl-blog.jpg\" alt=\"auerbach intl blog\" width=\"1023\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2366 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/auerbach-intl.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Auerbach12.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"321\" height=\"321\" \/>Welcome to the April edition of Friday Funnies, Auerbach International&#8217;s monthly presentation of the humorous but critical foibles of amateur translations and interpreters. Enjoy!<\/p>\n<ul style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<li>A sign outside of a Paris dress shop read, \u0093Dresses for street walking.\u0094<\/li>\n<li>A New Zealand restaurant announced its aggressive schedule, \u0093Open seven days a week, and weekends too.\u0094<\/li>\n<li>Former President Carter, on a trip to Poland, was misquoted by his interpreter.\u00a0\u00a0Carter said \u0093I left the United States this morning.\u0094 but the interpreter quoted him to have said \u0093I left the United States, never to return.\u0094<\/li>\n<li>During the same visit, President Carter stated that he was happy to be in Poland but was quoted as saying \u0093&#8230; happy to grasp at Poland\u0092s private parts.\u0094<\/li>\n<li>A hotel in Acapulco proudly exclaimed, \u0093The Manager has Personally Passed All the Water Served Here.\u0094<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We hope these faux pas have placed a laughing asterisk at the end of your busy week.<\/p>\n<p>Auerbach International&#8217;s three decades of premier language service has saved our clients from disastrous mistakes that would have cost them both money and their reputations. Your translation projects are always large in importance if not size, so never trust them to anyone else.\u00a0\u00a0We guarantee that your communication projects will be correct, localized for their audience and delivered on time.<\/p>\n<p>Please reach out to us for all of your professional translation needs.<\/p>\n<p>Regards ~<\/p>\n<p>Chris<br \/>\nChris Hempel<br \/>\nDirector fo Client Success<br \/>\nAuerbach International<br \/>\n415.592.0042 x125<br \/>\n818.445.4451 (mobile)<br \/>\n415.592.0043 (fax)<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:chris@auerbach-intl.com\">chris@auerbach-intl.com<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/lt.apptivo.com\/apptivo-message\/elr\/MjI1NTQwXzE0NjUyODMyXzE2MzUyODUzMjY2NDI_1ltr=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5hdWVyYmFjaC1pbnRsLmNvbQ==\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/lt.apptivo.com\/apptivo-message\/elr\/MjI1NTQwXzE0NjUyODMyXzE2MzUyODUzMjY2NDI_1ltr%3DaHR0cDovL3d3dy5hdWVyYmFjaC1pbnRsLmNvbQ%3D%3D&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1635535210619000&amp;usg=AFQjCNE1EQDLT5l9KAbTzIn4sePqysf3EQ\">www.auerbach-intl.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the April edition of Friday Funnies, Auerbach International&#8217;s monthly presentation of the humorous but critical foibles of amateur translations and interpreters. 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A sign outside of a Paris dress shop read, \u0093Dresses for street walking.\u0094 A New Zealand restaurant announced its aggressive schedule, \u0093Open seven days a week, and weekends too.\u0094 Former President&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/auerbach-intl.com\/staging\/april-friday-funnies-ask-for-bottled-water\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">April Friday Funnies &#8211; Ask for Bottled Water<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4076,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-newsletter","post_format-post-format-video","entry"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/auerbach-intl.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/auerbach-intl.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/auerbach-intl.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auerbach-intl.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auerbach-intl.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/auerbach-intl.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/auerbach-intl.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auerbach-intl.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auerbach-intl.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}