http://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/TSEJk/luxor-mah-jong

Just because a game uses Mahjong tiles doesn't make it Mahjong...
What other horrible mistranslations can you think of?

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A classic (if it counts).
Also Killing Floor, because you don't kill floors (if you were referring to game titles).

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A WINNER IS YOU!

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In the relatively recent re-translation of LOTR to Swedish, the translator, probably unfamiliar with older Swedish words, managed to translate "Sack" to an older Swedish word for when you do a trading run with a ship (kofferdi). This miss-translation was done in the name "Sackville", and suddenly that name got an entirely different meaning.

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There are several in Spanish translations :P One of the most popular, maybe, is about FF7:

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Could we get an explanation? :D I'm as versed in spanish as duolingo's second? lesson tought me :D

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Correct phrase: "Muy bien, allá voy"
Wrong phrase:"Muy bien, allévoy"

Allévoy means... nothing at all, but sounds funny and it has become popular among gamers, some kind of gamer war cry https://twitter.com/hashtag/all%C3%A9voy

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I play Mahjong with dominoes.

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Well the 2 first comments were what I had in mind. Can't really think of anything else right now.

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During Beijing Olympic games this happened.

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This reminds me of the dozens of mahjong games on the app store, all shang hai but no real mahjong :(

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In the spirit of other languages:

De Rode Ridder (The Red Knight) is a Belgian Flemish comic book series set in medieval Europe. It stars the titular character Johan, the Red Knight, easily recognizable by his red tunic.

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Heroes of Might and Magic III's hungarian handbook writes that in the barbarian town the killer whales (Kardszárnyú delfin in hungary, which would translate into sword-finned/winged dolphin) attack with their axes. Then we (I, and I guess numerous other players during the years) realized that the translator mixed up Orcs with Orca.

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Ah fantasy terms, the bane of many translators ;)
In the Swedish Warhammer: Dark Omen manual they had some rather dubious translations as well. Apart from just translating some things word for word, rather than looking at context and trying to build sentences that actually worked, they managed to translate two different things to the same thing.
Troll is the same word in both Swedish & English, so that was not a problem. Trolls were troll.
Goblin should be translated to "vätte" (or just Goblin, as they are not quite the same thing, but we don't have a proper word for it, so "vätte" is the closest one that fits, and when referring to the specific creature in folklore, you should not translate it), yet the translator translated that to "Troll" as well. Thus the Orc faction had two types of trolls. They had troll and they had troll, and they were not the same thing. They also had issues with the word "Boar" which can both mean "male pig" and, well, wild boar. They opted for the word for "Male pig", which made "Boar boyz" sound a lot more funny than it should be. They also had issues with a lot of other fantasy terms (their translation of "elf" was questionable as well, though I can at least see how it came to be), as was ogre, and most things referring to the undead.

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