Wednesday, February 15, 2012

America Can Do No Wrong

They say sometimes the joke gets lost in translation, but sometimes revolutionary slogans get lost in translation and the slogan becomes a joke.

The state sponsored slogan is Ayatollah Khomeini's famous saying "America can not do a damn thing" but on the 33rd anniversary of the 1979 Islamic revolution, the slogan is translated as 'America Can Do No Wrong'

The local Baseej must have used Google translator. It is exactly how Google translator, mistranslates the phrase:


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