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Did Ikea Just Make a Huge Translation Error, or a Hilariously Clever Ad?
At an Ikea in Bahrain, a storefront ad read “Create your perfect night’s sleep” in English. Directly below was what was presumably the same phrase in Arabic—except the “translation” reads “The same as written, but in Arabic.”
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