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  I Know Kazakhs Like Meat But This is Ridiculous

  Another translation fail! Safe handling for meat instructions on my razor blades. It’s a real problem because 1) meat doesn’t keep a sharp edge very well and 2) I don’t have time to thaw my razor blades every morning and then cook them before using.

  6/15/10 • (2)

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  Pirates in Kazakhstan

  Who says it’s just the Chinese that are into copyright violation and trying to trick customers? These boxers are made right here in the Republic of Kazakhstan and they aren’t too badly made. They are definitely competitive. But just to make sure, the marketers hoped you might think they were made by Calvin Klein. Of […]

  4/25/10 • (Comments Off on Pirates in Kazakhstan)

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  Bankhi Kaida?

  After my most recent adventure with new Kazakh tenge notes, I wondered what had happened about those misspelled bills. As you will recall, when they introduced the new currency x years ago, the first bills were released with a spelling error. In Kazakh the word for bank is bank but these bills had bankhi written […]

  4/03/10 • (Comments Off on Bankhi Kaida?)

• April Fools

  My earlier post, Capital Moving, was an April Fool’s joke. If my dictionary is to be believed, the name of the MP I “quoted” means “No one”. I also tried to write his voice in bad Russlish translation. The gazeta.kz story id was 00000. And of course the last quote was completely out of tone with the rest of his speech and hopefully reminiscent of The Onion or some such satirical source.

  From the comment count, my fooling rate was 50/50 or one of each. So not too bad.

  4/02/10 • (4)

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  We Inconvienenced You, Now We Kill You

  Terminal Inconvenience. The way this sign reads, it looks like someone forgot to secure that giant boulder onto the roof and it’s about to fall off onto your head.

  3/28/10 • (Comments Off on We Inconvienenced You, Now We Kill You)

• Do Not Trust This Penguin

  If he is to believed, Dom Joly is the darts champion of Kazakhstan. Dom Joly, who is most famous for his Trigger Happy TV candid-camera-on-crack show, is more of a comedian than a serious travel journalist so I assume that article is a joke, but you never know. Out of curiosity, was anyone at the […]

  3/15/10 • (Comments Off on Do Not Trust This Penguin)

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  Someone Reads My Blog and FAIL Blog

  I reported on this headline translation fail yesterday (Passing Gas is Kazakhstan’s Property) and it’s already up on Fail Blog. So who did it? Confess in the comments.

  3/15/10 • (1)

• Headline Translation Fail

  Passing gas is Kazakhstan’s property. I believe they meant to say “transporting natural gas”. By the way, does this article make Kazakhstan Today liable for embarrassing the President? After all, they did make it sound like he discussed flatulence. And the fact that Kazakhstan is behind in the farting gap: “Passing gas is not mentioned in any of the contracts, or in the production sharing agreement. Some countries have already done it”

  3/14/10 • (7)

• Clean Up Your Act

  I only post this Reuters story from Russia because it’s so funny and because it gives you an insight into the post-Soviet mentality. When a big man is coming, see how painstakingly people go over their city or school or home. Theater posters proclaiming “We await you, merry gnome” were taken down from a Russian […]

  2/24/10 • (Comments Off on Clean Up Your Act)

• You’re so Funny. Not.

  Ok, what was the point of this piece: You Get One Piece of Carrion Luggage? It takes a picture of Kazakhs hunting with hawks and makes a really stupid joke. So what’s the best domestic airline for getting from place to place [in Kazakshtan -KZBlog]? There is one small one that’s kind of unusual. They […]

  12/16/09 • (Comments Off on You’re so Funny. Not.)

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