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6 Responses to “How do you say “Restaurant” in English?”

1. ram Posted: Jun 20th, 2009 at 8:13 pm

   1 Very funny! Wonder what the intent was?

2. Mei Posted: Jun 20th, 2009 at 11:11 pm

   2 Author Comment It should be “restaurant”. Thanks, I should make it clear in the title.

3. ram Posted: Jun 21st, 2009 at 2:45 am

   3 That’s hilarious! I wonder if it was a “404 error”, which would be another funny name for a restaurant.

4. Mei Posted: Jun 21st, 2009 at 9:47 am

   4 Author Comment haha, that would be a good one, though most people can figure out “404” isn’t related to the original meaning, even without knowing English!

5. xgz Posted: Dec 20th, 2009 at 8:09 pm

   5 When I was in Beijing last month, I was with a colleague who is British. Once during dinner in a nice restaurant I told this story as a joke, and he paused for a minute then said, “that is not very kind.” It was my turn to pause before I figured out how he understood the joke. There is a second meaning to this story: That restaurant is not a English word (it’s a dig at English cooking).

6. Mei Posted: Jan 10th, 2010 at 9:53 pm

   6 Author Comment Wow, i would never have thought of it that way!