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    Default Humor with Jin Yong martial arts translation

    if you can read Chinese, check out: http://life.people.com.cn/GB/1090/4586219.html
    Contains some hilarious translations of martial arts names from Chinese to English.

    Examples:

    九阳神功 nine men’s power (九个男子的力量 )
    两仪剑法 1/2 sword (二分之一的剑。请问是左右二分之一还是上下二分之一啊 )
    易筋经 change your bone (换你的骨头。老兄算你狠 )
    小无相功 a unseen power (一种看不见的力量?原力…… )
    金刚伏魔圈 superman’s cover(超人的保护。老外看了还以为超人会出现呢 )
    八荒大法唯我独尊功 my name is NO.1(我的名字叫第一。无言 )
    葵花宝典 sunflower bible /from gentleman to a lady (太阳花的圣经,可让你从绅士变淑女。变性者的一大福音啊 )
    忽见柳荫下两个小孩子在哀哀痛哭,瞧模样正是武敦儒、武修文兄弟。郭芙大声叫道:「喂,你们在干甚麽?」武 修文回头见是郭芙,哭道:「我们在哭,你不见麽?」

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    Default Nine women catch a white bone

    Quote Originally Posted by PJ
    if you can read Chinese, check out: http://life.people.com.cn/GB/1090/4586219.html
    My personal favourites from that page:

    九阴白骨爪 - "nine women catch a white bone"
    五毒秘传 - "the experience of eat drink f*** bet and smoke"
    吸星大法 - "suck star over china"

    These aren't just bad translations. They're imaginatively bad translations.

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    LOL, these are hilarious

    I particularly like:

    九阴白骨爪 nine women catch a white bone
    葵花宝典 sunflower bible /from gentleman to a lady
    吸星大法 suck star over china


    The literal ones are funny too.

    胡青牛 buffulo hu
    七伤拳 7 hurted organ

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    the dog beating stick WAS funny, but i guess its not anymore cause it became a cliche :\
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    My favourite

    吸星大法 suck star over china(吸收全中国的星星。好神啊 )
    天山六阳掌 6 men of mountain sky’s press (天山上的六男子掌法。逐字翻也不是这样的吧 )
    黯然销魂掌 Deepblue press(深深忧郁的掌法。对对对,有忧郁症的都使出来 )
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    For more laughs, here are some of the "translations" I got by putting the entire link through Babelfish:

    九阴白骨爪 Nine cloudy bones of the dead fingernails. [Wow, grammatically sound!].

    梯云纵心法 Ladder cloud vertical heart law. [PJ, can this make it as ELOMA? ].

    轻功水上漂 The light merit aquatic floats.

    小无相功 Slightly does not have the strength which merit. [Hmm, totally different from the powerful internal technique that it's supposed to be].

    胡青牛医书 Hu Dawn Mills brand medical book. [ Who's "Dawn Mills"?]

    五毒秘传 The five harmful things Peru passes on. [Peru? I'm missing something here...]



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    隔空解穴 Separates Spatial Solution Hole. [I don't want to know what or where the HOLE is!]

    北冥真气 North Deep Really Is Mad.
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    Jin Yong's Ode to Gallantry [侠客行].
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    i ran the chinese text with babel fish, it came back different then the english translation,

    轻功水上漂 flying skill (飞行技能。好简洁) is 'the merit aquatic floats (□the good skill. Good □is clean)' i believe this is LBWW, right.

    you should try the rest, some are funny this way as well.
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    Quote Originally Posted by kyss of the sword
    i ran the chinese text with babel fish, it came back different then the english translation,

    轻功水上漂 flying skill (飞行技能。好简洁) is 'the merit aquatic floats (□the good skill. Good □is clean)' i believe this is LBWW, right.
    Nope. Ling Bo Wei Bu comes out with a lot less humour, as "surging waves micro step".
    Jin Yong's Ode to Gallantry [侠客行].
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    梯云纵心法 Ladder cloud vertical heart law. [PJ, can this make it as ELOMA?
    Sure.
    忽见柳荫下两个小孩子在哀哀痛哭,瞧模样正是武敦儒、武修文兄弟。郭芙大声叫道:「喂,你们在干甚麽?」武 修文回头见是郭芙,哭道:「我们在哭,你不见麽?」

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    hey guys, get a load of this

    八荒大法唯我独尊功 my name is NO.1

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    Quote Originally Posted by LuNaR
    the dog beating stick WAS funny, but i guess its not anymore cause it became a cliche :\
    Yeah.

    Now it's guide to dog beating

    打狗棒法 guide of dog beating(打狗指南。这……哪里有卖啊)

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