Still Lost in Translation

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<p>Have you ever arrived in a hotel room and been baffled by the information provided? <b>Beware of your luggage.</b> <b>In your room you will find a minibar which is filled with alcoholics.</b> <b>Do not throw urine around.</b></p><p>Have you ever been to a restaurant and wondered what on earth to order? <b>Bored Meat Stew</b> <b>Lorry Driver Soup</b> <b>Kiss Lorraine</b></p><p>Have you ever arrived in an airport and found that the supposedly helpful signs just make you feel more lost? <b>You are required to declare all sorts of private things.</b> <b>Departure. Bus stop. Car rectal.</b> <b>Please buy your ticket consciously.</b></p><p>Charlie Croker has, and in 2006 he gathered together what he thought was the definitive collection of English language howlers for his bestselling book<i>Lost in Translation.</i>But he reckoned without the great British public. Not only was the book a smash hit, it also opened the floodgates to a deluge of emails and letters stuffed full of further mistranslations and mutilated phrases. From a leaflet from the Museum of Rasputin in Russia (which is apparently situated in a house that<b>belonged a pilot fish Zubov</b>) to a song title on a pirated Pink Floyd CD (<b>Come Fartably Numb</b>), the scrambled sentences just kept flooding in. At the same time Charlie has continued his travels and picked up gems of his own. With such a wealth of material, a sequel wasn't just a necessity, it was a public service, and<i>Still Lost in Translation</i>is even more addictive, whimsical and side-splittingly hilarious than the first book.</p>

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Charlie Croker is an author and journalist. His previous books include<i>Lost in Translation, The Little Book of Beckham</i>and<i>A Game of Three Halves</i>. He has also written for<i>The Times,</i>the<i>Independent on Sunday</i>and the<i>Spectator</i>, among others. His name is frequently misspelt as Charlie Crocker.

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