Ok, not sure if this is a national problem with the Spiderman 3 posters, but Jeremy just noticed that in Kunming all of the promotional materials are messed up. The Chinese is fine and some of the English is a little silly, but there is a colossal mistake repeated on every bit of their signage — including the window decals.
The English word “Spiderman” never actually appears on the posters. Instead, above “蜘蛛侠” and Spiderman’s outstretched arms in that Spiderman-y font it reads: “ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPRSTUVWY - 3″.
Anyone in Shanghai or Beijing see the same mistake? Other metro areas?
Sadly, you may notice even the alphabet is transposed incorrectly. The letters “Q”, “X”, and “Z” are missing.
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Dang! Can you find that on a t-shirt for me!!???
wired…and funny…
蜘蛛侠3我去看了, 非常精彩, 比起以前几部来要精彩得多.
Elizabeth, 你的博客做得非常不错. 我是你衷实的读者.:)
I am a new one here.
For the posters, I also read in Kunming.
That is not a national problem.
While watching the “A,B,C etc”, 3 thoughts came up to me:
1.Same as yours, I think it stupid.
2.Interesting. Make me laugh a lot.
3.So smart are Chinese (the guy sold this poster doesn’t know English, but he is trying to follow up.)
There is a fact here: only the guys from college or the new-period Chinese (you could easily find some middle-school students speak fluent English in Kunming) know English. However, the poster-producer never trys to waste his money to hire people like those since he doesn’t think it is necessary.
I live in Guangzhou and I haven\\\’t seen anything like this on the Spidey posters. Though, I think it is a good marketing strategy since errors like this get a lot more press than posters without errors.
Woo~~
John is much cuter than me.
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