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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?)

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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)

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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)

• New Tenge: Update

  I was amused that the mistake in the new tenge had made the Reuters’ Oddly Enough. However, they actually bring up a good point about the politics of language: “The mistake … is not just a spelling problem — it has political undertones,” a letter from members of parliament to President Nursultan Nazarbayev said. “We […]

  10/20/06 • (Comments Off on New Tenge: Update)

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  Googling Kazakhstan

  When I get free time, I google Kazakhstan, or search for it in Technorati.com. And occasionally fun things come up. Like a toothpaste collector’s website, showing off his Kazakh toothpaste: This is some good toothpaste, though it makes your teeth feel like they’re coated in plastic. One wonders if this is actually helpful or is […]

  10/10/06 • (3)