Article> When it was suggested that the president send a letter to the Irish ambassador on stationery bearing the letterhead "An Teach Ban" — Gaelic for The White House — Roberts said he had no objection. But he wanted the translation checked carefully.
"For all I know it means 'Free the IRA,'" he wrote.
Interesting juxtaposition...since Roberts' comment reminded me of the time in WWII that the British hired a tea merchant to create propaganda leaflets to drop. When they had no success, they checked the translation and found that the leaflets read "Buy Abdul's Tea" or something like that. :-)
I often wonder what Asian language tattoos or t-shirts really say, when I have seen Japanese wearing t-shirts that say things like "Screen door" or whatever.
One of the stories a little while before the Soviet Union fell was about youths wearing T-shirts with messages, many in English, that had been brought into the country. One guy about 20 years old was asked if he knew what the shirt meant. "I have no idea.", he said. The shirt said United States Marine Corps.