Top 15 Croatian Language Fails: Smallpox, Hand Jobs and a Burek Called Desire

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I have very rarely cried with laughter when reading an article online, but TCN editor got me crying three time in the same month with her fabulous Lost in Translation series about Croatian language fails a few years go. You can find links to the original articles by Lauren below, but we thought it might make a fun video to compile the best of the best. Hope you enjoy.
Smallpox, Diarrhoea and Free Hand Jobs: Lost in Translation in Croatia - www.total-croatia-news.com/li...
Leprosy, Bitches and a Burek named Desire: Lost in Translation in Croatia - www.total-croatia-news.com/li...
Shakespeare, the Pope and the Way to the ''See'': Lost in Translation in Croatia - www.total-croatia-news.com/li...
Adverbs, Cocks and Dalmatian Furniture: Lost in Translation in Croatia - www.total-croatia-news.com/li...
Winos, Doggy Style and Strange Furious Drinks: Lost in Translation in Croatia - www.total-croatia-news.com/li...
Lubricator, Prefects, and Middle-Earth Moving Cake: Lost in Translation in Croatia - www.total-croatia-news.com/li...
Paper Sauce, Bears, and Fertilisers of Rice: Lost in Translation in Croatia - www.total-croatia-news.com/li...
Prize Lists, Cold Deposits and Viagra: Lost in Translation in Croatia - www.total-croatia-news.com/li...
Lost in Translation in Croatia: Bears, Acid, and Worm Appetisers - www.total-croatia-news.com/li...
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@faetont Год назад

One of the oldest example of direct translation, still sometimes used as a joke, is: "kako da ne" = "how yes no".

@jhutfre4855 Год назад

was just about to write that

@biserkasertic1208 Год назад

¸Another one is "prevedite me preko seste" =translate me across the streeet"

@minimalistserendipity4744 Год назад

As if = Kako da ne

@PaulBradbury Год назад

A classic

@Leon.Stanic Год назад

Who plums you

@tomislavdvorski1960 Год назад

There is one menu with "Međimurska gibanica - Middle-earth moving cake" 😄

@PaulBradbury Год назад

Yes tbat is in one of Laurens original articles which you can read in the video description

@zagrepcanin82 Год назад

😂😂😂 watch out Frodo Baggins!

@importedvixen Год назад

😂😂😂😂

Год назад

Google translate beware!

@joe_outdoors_ Год назад

I was once in Dubrovnik and read a menu where it had "Octopussy" Salad. Fortunately I can read Croatian and realized they were trying to say Octopus Salad. My Canadian wife couldn't quite understand how a fictional movie character from James Bond made it on the menu.

@PaulBradbury Год назад

Haha

@dewarprovider7030 Год назад

😅🤣😂 Priceless

@jakovsandrovcan3471 Год назад

Noice xD

@FrankDTank-lf4dq Год назад

I've seen this a couple times on the islands xD

@uglyenoughtobewise Год назад

Ne mogu, umirem 🤣 Ne znam koji mi je od ovih najdraži, nemoguć izbor. Da dodam i ja jedan primjer, ali u drugom smjeru. Jednom prilikom, davno prije Google Translatea, čitao sam neku knjigu prevedenu na hrvatski i u jednom trenu lik u priči kaže drugom "prerežimo govno!" Koje sad govno, iruda ti? Na tren me potpuno zbunilo, dok mi nije sinulo da je prevoditelj samo doslovno preveo frazu "let's cut the crap" 🙂

@PaulBradbury Год назад

Haha

@bernardokrolo2275 Год назад

Ovo je vrh

@PaulBradbury Год назад

@@bernardokrolo2275 haha hvala

@locochoco5959 Год назад

Croat diaspora here. One of the small things I love about visiting a restaurant / konoba / cafe is the translation on menu items. Me and my brothers laugh at it everytime.

@PaulBradbury Год назад

Agreed

@jameszg322 Год назад

🤣🤣 I found on one place "preljevi" (toppings) translated as "overflow".

@PaulBradbury Год назад

Nice

@alenq21 Год назад

Ah, the beauty of literal translations. :) I can imagine the ones who were trying to translate "kozice". When they googled it and got "smallpox", it sounded about right as "kozica" sounds like a diminutive from "koza" - meaning it was something "small"... so "smallpox" must've sounded perfect!

@mattmckeon1688 Год назад

Yes, as with chicken pox. - watery goats.

@zikamaster Год назад

kozice in croatian can mean smalpox or prawns - so consulting a google translator can play tricks on you...

Год назад

Actually, the disease smallpox is "vodene kozice", or "kozice" for short. According to Google Translate, if you ask it to translate from Croatian into English, it really offers only one option for "kozice", smallpox. However, if you ask it to translate from English into Croatian, smallpox is translated as "velike boginje". And if you ask it to translate shrimps into Croatian, it translates it as "škampi", which is the wrong translation. It should be prawns. Somebody at Google didn't do a good job, and it's created all this confusion. An endless supply of laughter though. LOL!

@marijanglavina2512 Год назад

Smallpox je i u medicinskoj terminologiji zeznuta stvar. Tu se i mnogi jezični znalci nerijetko zbune. "Pox" je nešto što se na hrvatski prevodi kao "boginje" radi cijelog niza virusnih bolesti koje izazivaju virusi iz porodice poxviridae. Konkretno, smallpox su u Hrvatskoj zapravo velike boginje (ne male) odnosno variola ili variola vera. Ono što mi zovemo male boginje odnosno ospice ili morbili na engleskom su zapravo measles, rubeola (USA), red measles, english measles. A ono što mi zovemo vodene kozice (varičela, varicelle) na engleskom je chickenpox. A Srbi ih zovu ovčije boginje. Da zakompliciram do kraja - ono što mi zovemo rubeola ili crljenica na engleskom (USA) je zapravo rubella ili german measles. A kao što sam već prije napisao, ono što je kod njih rubeola kod nas nije "naša" rubeola nego ospice. Zato je možda radi izbjegavanja zabune stvari nazivati kao morbili, variola, varičela, crljenica. Nije niti Google prevoditelju lako kad mu netko na meniju ponudi kozice.

Год назад

@@marijanglavina2512 Trebate javiti Google-u! Olakšali biste život mnogima. Izvrsno objašnjenje. Naučila sam nešto danas. Znala sam za neke riječi, ali ne sve.

@MimiMa359 Год назад

hilarious, 😂😂😂😂😂 still laughing and I already thought: *egg on the eye* 🍳 was funny !

@branimirbrebrich4759 Год назад

And a Croat who knows English would be amused by the "sunny side up" ( suncana strana gore:)), in other words, "priceless" is a cute word too. How many garages are sold without houses in N. America? Rascal is a "fakin" in Dalmatia. There are so many more to make you laugh for days. These are all "fakta" heard on the streets in Croatia.

@PaulBradbury Год назад

Haha

@doppel5627 Год назад

I remember how they solved this problem on Santorini. Left side was written in Greek, using the Greek alphabet. On the right side, which said "English" it was the same text, but written in Latin script. Very helpful.

@PaulBradbury Год назад

Brilliant

@mp7519 Год назад

Oh gosh I I didn't expect to cry of laughter 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Thanks Paul 🤗😃

@PaulBradbury Год назад

Haha

@shko-mi Год назад

My family owns a restaurant and they once ordered new menus so the printing company told them they'd provide English menus for free. However the outcome was hilarious, including "roasted paper", "imperial meat", "champion mushrooms", and just to make sure no expectations were ever met - all variations of pljeskavica were translated as hamburgers.

@PaulBradbury Год назад

haha

@importedvixen Год назад

Hshahaa Imperial meat😂😂😂 Love it👌🏻👌🏻 Carsko meso😂

@zgazdag1 Год назад

ćevapi s lukom - minced meat with bow 😀

@PaulBradbury Год назад

Haha

@gordonpi8674 Год назад

Glad to hear this from an English speaking person. Usually they don’t understand the big advantage of the phonetic writing, and fall for the unnatural English spelling where they stupidly memorize the words’ spelling, instead to write as they hear. Phonetic writing systems are adopted not just in Serbo-Croatian, but in all other Slavic and most of the Romance languages. Same goes for most of Germanic languages. Only English and partially French are the stubborn isolates that obviously need a spelling reform. Every smart nation has its language written phonetically, it’s the final time for English to join them as well.

@PaulBradbury Год назад

The longer I live abroad, the less English and the UK make sense

@dovlacro6382 Год назад

Just great! Now I must wipe off coffee from my keyboard because of laugh.

@PaulBradbury Год назад

Haha

@L.u.x.12.33 Год назад

Dear Paul. I love you mentioned this. I always have lots of laugh over those literal translations. It's a gold mine. You made me laugh pretty good. Love this classic english humor. Lots of love from Zg. ❤️ Brilliant as always. Cheers 🥂 p.s. Sorry for miss spells.😁

@PaulBradbury Год назад

Glad you enjoyed it!

@sinajakelic Год назад

also, we like to ‘directly’ translate croatian celebrities names like Matko Jelavić (well, who is a little lion?) or Dražen Zečić (honey bunny) 😂😂 I love your channel. hope to have a coffe with you in split or šolta one day!

@PaulBradbury Год назад

Haha tx

@ZMIJUSH Год назад

A Vladimir Fermivaš Kunelić ? Old school :)

@zagrepcanin82 Год назад

Or principal of one of the Zagreb's elementary schools...Mr. Dragi Zeko. I improved my abs workout 😂😂😂 But man is real. Or in Sabor when guy said to Mr Fabris Peruško If you would wake up in the middle of the night you would not your own name...😂😂😂

@markmalic7450 Год назад

Vincent Wolf (Vice Vukov )

@zagrepcanin82 Год назад

@@markmalic7450 😂

@dsego84 Год назад

I've seen in menus "prilozi" getting translated as "adverbs" instead of "toppings".

@MK-ln6nb Год назад

I thought prilozi is plural for prilog, meaning side dish.

@LK25278 Год назад

@@MK-ln6nb basically yes, but if you're ordering a sandwich at a fast food restaurant i cant think of another word for toppings in your sandwich (tomato, lettuce, mayo...) except "prilog/prilozi", but mostly the worker will just ask you "šta ćemo unutra" or something like that, which means "what do you want inside the sandwich" in this context :)

@MK-ln6nb Год назад

@@LK25278 oh ok, never ordered a sandwich in Croatia, they weren't a thing decades ago when I lived there.

@LK25278 Год назад

@@MK-ln6nb oh wow, do you mind my asking where you're from, where you stayed in Croatia and when was it?

@MK-ln6nb Год назад

@@LK25278 Australian born and raised but lived in Daruvar & Zagreb in the 80s for about 4 yrs when my parents moved back there.

@Ariella-xo4ko Год назад

I laughed for 5 minutes straight 😂 one gulas with george clooney please

@PaulBradbury Год назад

Haha

@treebeard7390 Год назад

And the winner is: Ćevapčići in a leprosy 👌

@PaulBradbury Год назад

It is certainly in the top 5

@ALifeWithoutBreath 8 месяцев назад

I see other comments already explaining why these mistakes might have happened. Such explanations can actually offer great insight into a language. While native speakers may be surprisingly unaware of these "inner workings" they can be devastatingly confusing for new learners.

@AntOnPez Год назад

Part with diarrhea was icing on the cake :) - hvala na genijalnom videu.

@PaulBradbury Год назад

Haha it was quality

Год назад

Gosh, that was funny. Made me laugh. Thank you for sharing this.

@PaulBradbury Год назад

Lots more coming if you want to subscribe

@avsIRL Год назад

🤣 Google translate fails! There are a few Facebook groups dedicated to this. A favourite of mine is "boiled bull" for "kuhana govedina".

@PaulBradbury Год назад

Haha

@MK-ln6nb Год назад

There are a lot of people in Croatia who speak fluent English and often have a much better grasp of the language than most native English speakers. Clearly none of them work in, or have been consulted by owners of, restaurants! My favourite here was the pate!

@PaulBradbury Год назад

It is a great list

@vjekoslavvnucec326 Год назад

Great content Paul! Greetings from Zagreb

@PaulBradbury Год назад

Glad you enjoyed it! Lots more to come if you want to subscribe

@johnculjak1798 6 месяцев назад

This is the great channel ever.

@PaulBradbury 6 месяцев назад

Haha not sure i agree on that one, but glad you think so. Lots more coming if you want to subscribe

@anasaulea2105 Год назад

A good laugh 😃 . Thank you

@PaulBradbury Год назад

Glad you enjoyed it

@TheTea0806 Год назад

I love your video, Paul! :)

@PaulBradbury Год назад

Glad you enjoyed it!

@namefirst6835 Год назад

I love these and im glad i've found one with my fellow croatians

@PaulBradbury Год назад

Great

@AleksandarGospic Год назад

hahaha glad you covered this subject, made me lol 😆 Wish I could see the faces of tourists when they read stuff like this in the menu 😁Translating some Croatian words and sayings directly to English is also source of much fun here. Maybe you could make a video about that too (dapače - yes little duck, kako da ne - how yes no, ubiti oko - kill an eye, tko te šljivi - who plums you, etc)

@PaulBradbury Год назад

Haha, yes this is just a sample. There is a link to all Lauren's videos in the video description.

@zoranruncev4649 Год назад

Unfortunately this is the case all over the Balkans (for designing as well) . Everybody thinks they can translate the menus, 'nema problema moj sin zna engleski', instead of hiring a professional .... it's a "WAIST" of money :)

@stipe3124 Год назад

I really had a good laugh during and after this video 😅😁😂

@PaulBradbury Год назад

Great

@tihanad.29 Год назад

Thank you for this Paul, it is hilarious🤣👍reminds me of my travels to China..the absolute winner there was a sign board saying " toilet - chamber of ten thousand flowers" - found in the Yu gardens of Shanghai😃

@PaulBradbury Год назад

Haha quality

@Matheologia Год назад

I'm dying! 🤣🤣 Here's another one when we want to help an old British lady cross the street: "Would you like me to translate you on the second page of the street?"

@PaulBradbury Год назад

Haha

@bijou201 Год назад

Thank you, I died laughing! Now I need to take care of my monitor. :p From my locals here are two: old recipe called "Kokoš na zeca" (with gnocchi) with its literal translaton "Chicken on Bunny" and Seljačka pizza (Villager Pizza).

@PaulBradbury Год назад

Haha

Год назад

One of my many jobs was translating and editing from English into Croatian, and vice versa. A colleague of mine, who should've known better as she had a Master's degree in English, translated "Anybody who enters, will be fired" as "Tkogod uđe, bit će zapaljen", which means "Anybody who enters, will be set on fire". I couldn't stop laughing. So, even if you hire an expert, you might get lost in translation. LOL!

@PaulBradbury Год назад

Haha vrh

Год назад

@@granadacrain5219 It was a cartoon meme within a book that was translated. And a manager might to do that if they're exasperated with non-stop interruptions and people not heeding their requests not to be interrupted while they're working on something important that requires their full attention.

@samkitty5894 Год назад

Don't blame him. Blame it on the English language. "Fired" should mean set on fire. Not a word for the termination of employment.

@marijanglavina2512 Год назад

Meni je najbolji prijevod jela "Pivac s prilogom" kao "Singer with attachment"

@PaulBradbury Год назад

Vrh

@KnezBranimir879 Год назад

Also, occasionally in restaurants I see "prilozi" (side dishes) translated as "adverbs".

@PaulBradbury Год назад

Yes if you look in the vid description, you will see all Laurens articles with many more examples

@KnezBranimir879 Год назад

@@PaulBradbury thanks, I'll check it out. I need a good laughter.

@korculaamv9820 Год назад

The last one got me laughing so hard 🤣, It is a perfect name

@PaulBradbury Год назад

Haha

@Tiborcek Год назад

I would like to know more about the thought process that produced the translation "celebrity" from tjestenina...

@PaulBradbury Год назад

I think we all would

@tomislavsurjak176 Год назад

🤣😅😄😂😄😅🤣 Awesome...!!! Paul, 👍...

@PaulBradbury Год назад

haha thanks

@suzannelord5240 Год назад

I live in Dubrovnik, and the beach near me used to offer "frozen beer". I think they meant ice cold.....

@PaulBradbury Год назад

Nothing beats a cold one by the sea

@sinajakelic Год назад

you certainly aren’t mocking, but some of those signs are actually done on purpose, to make fun of all those times we saw badly written english. it’s very hard to distinguish which are actual mistakes from the ones made for fun :)

@PaulBradbury Год назад

Haha

@ivrtaric Год назад

Yeah, it's like that unofficial competition between screenwriters in Hollywood, about who can write the most ridiculous and over-the-top computer hacking scene. Only, here it's about the most ridiculous and over-the-top mis-translation.

@IvanBalen-mr4pv Год назад

thanks Paul, "to the bitch" had me in stitches. I think some of these mistakes were intentional though.

@PaulBradbury Год назад

Haha, which ones

@IvanBalen-mr4pv Год назад

"čevapčići in a leprosy" seems like someone was trying to be creative with their use of language. The word leprosy (guba in Croatian) can also refer to a species of fungus ( just google brezova guba ), which does somewhat resemble a lepinja. "Burek od zelja" is also interesting because the word zelja is quite similar to želja (desire in English) so I think whoever translated that did that on purpose. Google translates this as "greens burek", which is correct. Take care

@Photostoryhr Год назад

May I add: the sign for apartment for rent reads APARTMENT-FREE, they mean VACANT or APP, they mean apartment.

@PaulBradbury Год назад

yes that is common

@josiprakonca2185 7 месяцев назад

Worthy successor of "Zimmer frei" Is "Zimmer frei" ok, I wonder?

@Photostoryhr 7 месяцев назад

Don't speak german but in american english it is VACANT not FREE@@josiprakonca2185

@edinmazlami2599 Год назад

Hahahahaha...najs wačed...

@PaulBradbury Год назад

Haha

@Damir_Turk Год назад

damn some of these have really suprised me :D

@PaulBradbury Год назад

Haha

@ultracro Год назад

Sir, I recommend you to visit a small town Požega. The heart of slavonia. This is where I was born. A beautiful town in the lowlands and on the hills. It looked much better before the corruption began. Politicians and the bishop in Požega destroyed the beauty of this town. Took down the trees, shut down the only cinema we had, shut down some cafes because it was too loud for the “high bishop”😒, but the beauty prevailed in some parts of the town. It is worth visiting.

@PaulBradbury Год назад

I have been to Pozega. Nice place, lovely people, very hospitable.

@ultracro Год назад

@@PaulBradbury So nice to hear sir! Hope you had an amazing time!

@mattmckeon1688 Год назад

Shrimp on the way home. 🦐 😂 In a slight tangent I remember taking my son to the doctor when he contracted chicken pox while on Easter holidays. From that day on said ailment will forever be watery goats. 🐐 🐐 🐐

@dtikvxcdgjbv7975 Год назад

Goaties, ro be correct 😂

@PaulBradbury Год назад

Haha

@smetljesm2276 Год назад

I haven't seen many of those here in Croatia, but had a great laugh in Thailand 😅😅😅😅

@PaulBradbury Год назад

I can imagine

@HanaGalinec-fx7rf Год назад

Was crying all the way...Pozdrav iz Varaždina

@PaulBradbury Год назад

Haha

@goranelez9956 Год назад

Where exactly can we buy tickets for your stand-up show? 🤩

@PaulBradbury Год назад

Haha, actually the real comedian is Lauren Simmonds. If you look in the video description, you will see links to all the original articles she wrote on this. Fabulously funny.

@kristinauhrl6983 Год назад

These are hilarious!!

@PaulBradbury Год назад

haha lots more coming if you want to subscribe

@RhiannonSenpai Год назад

0:08 Romanian is a phoentic language as well. It seems countries in South Eastern Europe usually tend to be phonetic languages.

@PaulBradbury Год назад

How did it come to be that Romanian is the only Romance language in the region, do u know?

@vietnowsoldo Год назад

@@PaulBradbury It was spoken everywhere, cause of Roman empire, there is small population on Istria speaking Istro-Romani/Vlach. There was Dalmatian language, another Romani language. Illyrian tribes had many different languages, then it was replaced with Latin, which gave birth to different Romance languages, Later came Slavs that brought their own language. Even Romanian have a lot of slavic words, but they kept their own Romani. Linguists know better than me :)

@markmalic7450 10 месяцев назад

Spot on Paul..love your work ..if you ever come on down Down Under Beers on me

@PaulBradbury 10 месяцев назад

Long way to come for a beer but thanks for the offer

@minimalistserendipity4744 Год назад

😂😂😂😂 that's google translate where google doesn't recognise the diacritics marks possibly

@jj4297 Год назад

Pošto si moj Pavle dalmatinac mogu na naški😂 kako me ti stari nasmiješ ne pada mi teško ni noćna smjena u casinu 😆

@dtikvxcdgjbv7975 Год назад

Dalmatinac ne more bit Pavle nego Pave

@jj4297 Год назад

@@dtikvxcdgjbv7975 ma zamisli ti kako sve znaš

@PaulBradbury Год назад

Happy to hear that

@Mytrix0 10 месяцев назад

My dad always found it funny how “varam te” and “warranty” sound kinda similar. He’d say “you see, we already know how to speak English.”

@PaulBradbury 10 месяцев назад

haha vrh

@nohlavopi8617 Год назад

literally crying,, i am from cro and i have seen stuf but not as much as you did aparantly

@PaulBradbury Год назад

Lots more coming if u want to subscribe

@samkitty5894 Год назад

Years ago I met an American girl that I immediately fell in love with. I tried in my broken English to tell her "I had sympathy" for her...I could tell it didn't go over well. Her look said it all. Croatian word "simpatija" means affection in English... Not a word one uses at the funeral...

@PaulBradbury Год назад

Yes that word has caused quite a lot of confusion over the years

@prevara5162 Год назад

these are really easy to find all over croatia. you'll be relieved that the restaurant near me doesn't actually serve "worm meals"

@marril96 Год назад

This is glorious 🤣

@PaulBradbury Год назад

Haha tx

@That_Bender Год назад

😂😂😂 awesome!

@PaulBradbury Год назад

Haha

@jonelova Год назад

I have impression that sometimes they do it on purpose to amuse guests while waiting for food to be prepared on a full night. Smallpox is quite a common dish in the menus

@PaulBradbury Год назад

Maybe 1pc but i point the mistakes out and they are mortified

@MelJandric Год назад

Some of those are likely Google translations. Words might have two meanings depending on context (kozice), but google doesn't know that. And on top of that, if you mistype original word, Google will auto-correct and _then_ translate. But on the other hand I don't understand why people don't ask for help before spending money to print a menu.... oh yes, I remember (being Croatian myself): Croats don't ask for help, we know how to do everything. Or if we don't then we have a teenage nephew who knows....

@PaulBradbury Год назад

Haha

@importedvixen Год назад

I always wonder: what kind of serious businessman can open the business and use google translator for his business? Madness

@TrazomGV Год назад

Well, our folks suffer from certain mixture of selfconfidence and intellectual neglectance. All of this mentioned in your clip is funny but tragic in the same time. Maybe it is also a consequence of quick sollutions on google translation service of modern time living on gadgets, without knowing enough about the very matter of investigation. For a country almost fully dedicated to tourism, this particularly shows how local people ignore reasonable approach to important matters, and it is visible everywhere, not only in most developed touristic areas at the seaside but in Zagreb as well. Somehow people generally think that it is tolerable and it is not going to have any effect on business, or on the other hand they are convinced they did everything correctly. I have been trying for years to persuade waiters in a small hotel in Vela Luka to change wrongly written German name of a certain dessert meal in their menu. There 's no need to tell you that all my efforts were useless, despite I was having dinner year after year there. In Samobor, small tourist destination 20km from Zagreb, where I work, we use to go often to pizzeria for snack time-out. In their menu 70% of Italian titles for pizza types are written wrong! The owners don't bother at all...

@PaulBradbury Год назад

I hear you - there is a lot of inertia in the hospitality industry

@stipobudimir4954 Год назад

😄😄😄the best

@PaulBradbury Год назад

haha thanks

@GrgoPetrov Год назад

1:20 "...is rather unfortunate" haha

@PaulBradbury Год назад

Haha

@kichmadev Год назад

Man that was hilarious, Dalmacija never change. 😅 My father learned russian in school and my mother learned german so they strugle with english too.

@PaulBradbury Год назад

But do we want it to change?

@kichmadev Год назад

@@PaulBradbury of course not, handjobs is just good marketing. 🙂

@crampoos 2 месяца назад

Please, translete me to another page of the street. LOL

@Lara4771 Год назад

I will never forget a huge sign for a popular restaurant nearby Plitvice Lakes. They advertised piglet on a spit, translated into German " Säugling am Spies" which means " newborn baby on a spit". Every time I'd drive by, I'd ponder about stopping and telling them about their mistake. But I never did, instead got a good laugh every time. The sign stood there for years. Lol, today Google translates piglet (odojak) into "breast milk"!

@PaulBradbury Год назад

Haha quality - thanks for sharing.

@kristijanveza8086 Год назад

😂Well done.. Congrats

@PaulBradbury Год назад

Thanks - lots more coming if you want to subscribe.

@alexs3119 Год назад

AAaaaaaaaaahhahahahahahahah......you've made me cry.......hahahahaha....Goodness me, were did you find those translations?

@PaulBradbury Год назад

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@ivanbilobrk5225 4 месяца назад

Pop pjevač - priest singer is classic.

@stormmeds Год назад

hilarious 😂

@PaulBradbury Год назад

Haha

@toobalkain Год назад

English is anything but hard to master including written English for someone coming from another Indo-European language, try Chinese or any other tonal language with a different script.

@Baky6 Год назад

As a Croat who speaks English every day, I work with workers from the Philippines and India. I live right by the coast and I see funny signs on restaurants and fast food. I offered to correct some of their translation errors in exchange for a good meal for my girlfriend and me. One restaurant owner told me that there is no need because Google tanslate is free and that I just want to get a free meal. Restaurant owners are mostly primitive people who only care about profit. Employees are brought in from villages in the mountains of the Balkans, who are paid minimally and hardly communicate with us Croats, let alone tourists. We have strong hospitality schools where people speak several languages in addition to English. But the problem is that they have to pay that educated man . The one he dragged from the mountain is his slave and these people work in impossible conditions 16 hours a day 7 days a week

@MrsKirk2203 Год назад

My friend's brother took the Burek with desire picture 😁

@PaulBradbury Год назад

Would love to buy him a beer of thanks when in Zagreb

@MrsKirk2203 Год назад

@@PaulBradbury He's from Split though

@JB-id3qd Год назад

Hilarious. Have you ever tried Janjetina s ražnja? Its basically lamb on a spit. But this is only good in dalmatia, and it is very hard to find any restaurants that do really good job with it and the kind of lamb is specific for this. Its allmost impossible to find and good lamb for this in country side Croatia.

@PaulBradbury Год назад

it is one of my favourite things here

@RobertsClassicShave Год назад

🤣🤣🤣 not only in English! In German the same!

@PaulBradbury Год назад

Am sure it is

@mirkolakatus8472 Год назад

Tata, koje boje su šljive. Plave sine. Pa zašto su ove crvene? Zato što su još zelene sine.

@bernardokrolo2275 Год назад

A Pavao KruhSahranio?

@zagrepcanin82 Год назад

Breakfast: eggs on eye 😂😂😂

@PaulBradbury Год назад

haha

@nickepic1863 Год назад

3:55 🤣😂 Shrimp on the way home can't be real? 😁

@PaulBradbury Год назад

I cant believe any of it is real

@saonestranedinare644 Год назад

My favourite is 'half-island Peljesac', which actually is not that wrong. It's my dearest though....I mean Peljesac....paradajz!

@PaulBradbury Год назад

It is a great place

@r1pcurl24 Год назад

hahahaha 👌🙌

@silviah2302 Год назад

To be fair, plata ,or plate (plural), is Serbian word for wages🤣 ....Croatian would be osobni dohodak (formal) or plaća ( plaaa- chaa) (informal)

@PaulBradbury Год назад

aha, thanks for the info

@technologista8570 Год назад

Some of the translations are even better than the proper ones! 🤣

@PaulBradbury Год назад

True story

@JC-to5by Год назад

When using google translate goes wrong 🤣🤣🤣

@PaulBradbury Год назад

Yep

@marioturkalj1239 Год назад

It's sad that people that write the menues don't handle english so good.They can easly google it up or just ask someone if they are not sure.

@PaulBradbury Год назад

Yes it is crazy - why put so much effort into a restaurant and then let yourself down on the selling side?

@dewarprovider7030 Год назад

"Mlada jagnjetina" - "Young lamb meat" in Lika.

@PaulBradbury Год назад

Now I am hungry.

@samkitty5894 Год назад

I once ordered "young lamb". It was very, very tough...hard to cut and chew. I asked the waiter: "Are you sure this was lamb and not some old mutton?" He said: "Sir, I assure you this lamb was running after its mother, just yesterday..." I don't doubt it...was it for the milk or for sex?

@dewarprovider7030 Год назад

@@samkitty5894 Wow! Even the old mutton can be delicious if prepared properly. If the local chef isn't that experienced, there's "young" lamb on "advertising table" (a piece of wood with brush painted letters on it), particularly from May to late September 😁. Go figure !

@MrMt67859 Год назад

1:31 if you think of the word „manufacture“ its from latin: manus (hand) and facere (to make) so it‘s literally to make by hand. I guess hand jobs are also something you „make by hand“ so it‘s not all wrong 😂 (Sometimes it‘s helpful to bear in mind that the Croatian language has a lot of „mistranslated“ latin words)

@PaulBradbury Год назад

Haha, I guess it is technically correct, but technical hand jobs do sound a little different

@MileGuerrini Год назад

Shrimps on the way home!!! 🤣🤣🤣

@PaulBradbury Год назад

Don't knock it until you have tried it

@domagojmackovic430 Год назад

😁😁😁

@mashav6810 Год назад

Palačinke od pirovoga brašna translates as Pyrrhic pancakes

@PaulBradbury Год назад

haha

@johncavar2914 Год назад

Lol 🤣

@agontprevarator5214 Год назад

Hilarious... A lot of this is what happens someone who only speaks their native tongue is given the task of translating something. They'll use google translate and will have no idea that the word they put in could have a completely different meaning in the language they are translating to, it's simply not a phenomenon they are aware of. Salaries for two people, lmao

@PaulBradbury Год назад

Very true