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[Geckoman]

Seoul Museum of Art butchers English.

This is going to hurt the museum's attempt to attract foreign/tourist visitors.

JoongAng Daily:

Seoul Museum of Art lets down"
http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2915698

Article written by Elizabeth Groeschen.

[Steelrails]

They butchered the Art Museum by having a TV showing a basketball game in the lobby for people waiting in line.

Really? a TV for casual sports viewing at an Art Museum?

For shame.

[seoulsucker]

[BigBuds]

[yellowdove]

Whoever wrote that article is completely right! My friends and I got extremely frustrated with the poor English translation, so much so that we made fun of it for the rest of the evening and into the next couple of days. I even blogged about it myself!

The worst blurb about Andy was that he 'had great relationships with the people he did portraits of' like Beethoven, Lenin and Mao. Yea, no. That never happened. Yes, he did do portraits of these people, but he did NOT have relationships with these people, nor did they commission Andy to do the portraits. I mean, Beethoven died in 1827!

I think if a museum as large and as popular as the Seoul Museum of Art writes something in English, they should get a translator and then have a native English speaker correct the translation. Because that was just an embarrassment.

[orosee]

I can understand that... Hiring an ET to help with the English translation might not be that easy. First, he might be stalked by AES and arrested for doing illegal work on the side. Second, and I know that from my own experience of correcting the English versions of our corporate marketing presentations, more than often you cannot even get the sense and meaning of the text. Every second sentence I'm left with a decision whether the writer meant this or the exact opposite. Try reading the example given in the article, you will feel an uncanny resemblance with a real message but still be confused over the actual meaning.

[yellowdove]

In the case of not understanding meaning, the translator would just take it upon themselves to get as much of the meaning as possible into the message, while still writing it with proper grammar. I can understand not being able to fully translate, say, a child's work at school or a hagwon, because you really are just trying to correct something that once it's handed back it will never be looked at again. This, however, is a major world museum with a large exhibition of a very famous artist. Just get someone with an English degree to correct the translated English. That's all.

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