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Mar17
Bad Translations? Not in Norway
I have been browsing Norwegian web sites looking for bad translations into English.  Bo-ring!  They do it too well.  Better get back to the happy hunting ground for bad translations, further south.  The worst I could find was on the intriguing site of the Norwegian Aviation Museum in Bods, Norway.  Here and there you can find a misplaced apostrophe or an odd bit of phrasing, but it's hard to tell if it was written by a native speaker of English or not.  So it's hard to know if it was through ignorance--or just a typo--that you see a description of "bush flights in the desserts and jungles of West Africa".  West African desserts?  In a Norwegian museum?

My congratulations to the translators and web authors of Norway.  Your English gets an A.

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