Bad Translations on Signs

by Rossana Samanamud
(São Paulo, Brazil)

I saw these ads during my trips and besides terrible translations, cultural aspects are also considered here.

• In a Brazilian shop:
  "Please keep out of children" on a knife package.



• At a church confession room in a small city in Toledo, Spain:
  "Confess your sin and pay to be healed"



• In a dressing room in a mall in Chile:
  "If you don't fit, we do not exchange your pieces"