Chinese publishers mistakenly turn Grimm's tales into stories with incest and sex orgies

Being lost in the translation is a state of being that can be humorous and also extremely embarrassing. Errors in syntax, which are known as “Chinglish,” can be unintentionally insulting as well. Consider signposts to Minority People Park that were translated as Racist Park.

For the China Friendship Publishing Company and China Media Time, who has been forced to recall a collection of Grimm’s Fairy Tales after mistakenly translating an erotic Japanese version of the stories, embarrassing is most assuredly the arising condition.

Usually, translations into English involve running the original language through a program such as Google Translate. The resulting text is usually used as is. The problem in this case was that when the company couldn’t locate the original German versions of the tales, they used the Japanese erotic version instead.

Around 150 copies of the book were sold in Hangzhou before complaints from customers led to the recall. The result was that instead of children delighting in the classic version of Snow White, they read about her incestuous sexual romp with both her own father and the seven dwarves.

If that isn’t enough to give any fairy tale die-hard a heart attack, a prince suffering from necrophilia then ravages the lovely Snow White.

The company admitted to using the services of a graduate student for the translation and one can only wonder what this person was thinking knowing that he was translating a collection of tales for children.

The fact that no editor checked his error compounded the resulting embarrassment. Will there be a sequel? Whatever will they do with Little Red Riding Hood or worse, Hansel and Gretel?

It is said that the devil is the details, but in this case its running amuck among classic children’s’ tales!


/Weird Asia News/