28 JUL 2017: Ever been to Fluffy Chicken? How about Whiz-Fiber Module? In my world travels, I’ve become used to running across signs in shops like Welcome Turist: We Spik Inglish. I’ve seen menus that promise “a gastronomic ordeal.”
I get it that there are cultural differences when they ask for your name and “all known aliases” on an arrivals form.
But I’d never seen anything like the bizarre choices on the official online form I needed to fill out for a visa to cruise to an Asian country that shall remain nameless.
It was instantly clear that the translation programme the embassy installed had somehow eaten the codes for geography.