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Chinese Take-Away
Un cuento chino
2011 · Film · 93 min
Directed by Sebastián Borensztein
A comedy that chronicles a chance encounter between Robert and a Chinese named Jun who wanders lost through the city of Buenos Aires in search of his uncle after being assaulted by a taxi driver and his henchmen.
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The awesome Argentinian move Un cuento chino is in English Chinese Take-Away or U.S. English Chinese Take-Out[0] ...because un cuento chino (literally, a Chinese story) means in Spanish a tall tale, a cock-and-bull story, a confusing mess[1], so the title (the movie features a Chinese guy and his extremely unlikely, hard-to-believe history) is rather untranslatable.
Another expression relating to a confusing mess is the wonderful Hungarian Flood-resistant mirror-drilling machine:
"Before Unicode became common in e-mail clients, e-mails containing Hungarian text often had the letters ő and ű corrupted, sometimes to the point of unrecognizability. It is common to respond to an e-mail rendered unreadable (see examples below) by character mangling (referred to as "betűszemét", meaning "garbage lettering") with the phrase "Árvíztűrő tükörfúrógép", a nonsense phrase (literally "Flood-resistant mirror-drilling machine") containing all accented characters used in Hungarian."[2]
[0] Australia here. What in the U.S. is apparently called take-out is called take-away here.
[1] https://www.wordreference.com/es/en/translation.asp?spen=un%20cuento%20chino
https://forum.wordreference.com/threads/un-cuento-chino.7730/
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mojibake#Hungarian