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Tja, we lopen allemaal het risico om "de mist in te gaan" als we in een taal schrijven die niet de onze is. Dat levert nogal eens onbedoeld ludieke omschrijvingen op. In sommige gevallen zou dat echter uw imago kunnen schaden.
Daarom is het prettig om te weten dat TEXX nu 24 uur per dag haar diensten aanbiedt via het Internet. Als wij uw teksten controleren of vertalen, bent u er in ieder geval zeker van dat bloopers van onderstaand kaliber u niet overkomen. Pas met die zekerheid kunt u echt lachen om de volgende taalslippertjes:
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In a Zürich hotel:
Because of the impropriety of the entertaining guests of the opposite sex in the bedroom, it is suggested that the lobby be used for this purpose.
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 Advertisement for donkey rides in Thailand:
Would you like to ride on your own ass?
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In a Bangkok temple:
It is forbidden to enter a woman even a foreigner if dressed as a man.
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In a Norwegian cocktail lounge:
Ladies are requested not to have children in a bar.
Two signs at the entrance of a Majorcan shop:
English well speaking. Here speeching American.
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In the office of an Italian doctor in Rome:
Specialist in women and other diseases.
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On the menu of a Polish restaurant:
Salad a firm's own make; Limpid red beet soup with cheesy dumplings in the form of a finger; roasted duck let loose; beef rashers beaten up in the country people's fashion.
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Outside a Paris boutique:
Dresses for street walking.
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From the Soviet Weekly:
There will be a Moscow Exhibition of Arts by 150.000 Soviet Republic painters and sculptors. These were executed over the past two years.
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 In a Rhodes tailor shop:
Order your summers suit. Because is big rush we will execute customers in strict rotation.
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In a Paris hotel elevator:
Please leave your values at the front desk.
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In a Bucharest hotel lobby:
The lift is being fixed for the next day. During that time we regret that you will be unbearable.
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In a Leipzig elevator:
Do not enter lift backwards, bud only when lit up.
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Outside a Hong Kong tailor shop:
Ladies may have a fit upstairs.
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