Talking about translations, here are two real-world masterpieces:

1) The Java course I am teaching is, in general, well translated (into Spanish). But I nearly fell of my chair when I realized that they had translated "cast" (casting variable types) to a word which really means "the set of actors in a movie".

2) An astronomy program I saw on television, several ago (also in Spanish), was talking about a star with a name that I found quite strange. I had never heard of such a star. Finally I realized that they had translated "Sirius B" phonetically - resulting in the equivalent of "serious bee". In Spanish, of course, the two don't sound similar at all. (Sirius is a double star; the brighter component being Sirius A, the dimmer one - a white dwarf - Sirius B.)

>In my spare time, when I'm not arguing with Walter Meester I build tank models. A fairly new company from China released a series of kits in the last couple of years with classic "Engrish" translations. This is the description of their model of a WW2 Soviet heavy tank, the KV-2:
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>RUSSIN KV-2 TANK
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>Produce at the same time in the kv-1 model 1941, the KV-2( Also to be called the year in KV-2 model 1941) also threw in the production. The KV-2 characteristic is its quick-fried tower shape. The quick-fried tower that equip 152 mm howitzer reports the hexagon keeps the square form, resembling an enormous box. But, it is said because of the excess, if not on the horizontal plane, dry by heat the tower connect to revolve all and very difficult. Because of such weakness, KV-2 is in actual battle, only used for proceeding to the virtuous soldier the thermodynamic power inhibit, but need not in the battlefield that hour of backstroke break war.