Erroneous translations from Chinese Language Log has had a number of posts on the subject of bad translations from English to Chinese that mistakenly use the word fuck This post has links to a few others These include Spread to fuck the fruit for Loose dried fruit Fuck the certain price of goods for Dry foods price counter Do you want to fuck what for What do you want to do The problem it seems is that the same character is used in simplified Chinese for words meaning dry and do and also in the latter sense can mean fuck And automatic translation software doesn t always know which one is appropriate