Super-literal translations is an easy attempt at humour

[horusporus]

But I love them anyway.

So! I'm crossposting this from my own journal, because I figure there may be people here who are interested. The subject of this post is this fake letter from a broken-hearted guy. The joke is that he, as a native Malay speaker would tend to do, is writing an overly flowery farewell letter to a girl... except he's translating the Malay proverbs literally.

The list, as below:
( literal translations of Malay proverbs ftw?? )

Hopefully that provides some laughs for today. :)