Thursday, December 11, 2008

Annals of Mrs. Translation


The Independent:
There were red faces on the editorial board of one of Germany's top scientific institutions, the Max Planck Institute, after it ran the text of a handbill for a Macau strip club on the front page of its latest journal. Editors had hoped to find an elegant Chinese poem to grace the cover of a special issue, focusing on China, of the MaxPlanckForschung journal, but instead of poetry they ran a text effectively proclaiming "Hot Housewives in action!" on the front of the third-quarter edition.

1 Comments:

Blogger nzm said...

Translation here together with the apology letter from the institute!

11:20 PM  

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