Today, my friend thought it would be funny to change the language setting on my phone to Mandarin. Unfortunately, neither of us knows Mandarin, and we can't change it back to English. FML
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A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, while I was in the shower, my older brother thought it would be funny to change the language on my phone to Serbo-Croatian. I don't know how and can't change it back. FML
Today, I was trying to get my girlfriend to speak Mandarin. After speaking her first words and taking a break, she posted on Facebook: "I speak ching chong! :D :D :D" FML
Today, in an idle moment I tried to change the language on a Word document. Instead, I changed my default Office language, and now all my Office apps - plus all my work Excel files - are now in Ukrainian. It's really hard to fix when you can't read the instructions. FML
Today, I was eating at a Chinese restaurant, when I stopped the waitress to tell her that even though I am of Chinese heritage, I can't understand a word of Chinese. After an awkward silence, she told me she was actually speaking English. FML
Today, I was unable to communicate with a customer who only spoke French. As a result, my boss called me a "monolingual idiot." I speak Spanish, German, and Japanese. FML
Today, I was trying to change my PIN code in order to make my phone more secure and prevent people from getting information from it. Instead, I somehow ended up locking my phone permanently. FML
Today, my husband changed the voice on my car's GPS to Mr T's. I don't know how to change it back. I've been saying, "I pity the fool" over and over again ever since. FML
Today, at a tutoring center, one of the tutors looked at my worksheet and laughed. She then showed all the other tutors my mistakes and they laughed along with her. The best part? They all speak Chinese and they think I can't understand them. I'm Chinese. FML
Today, I texted my friend and asked her what her sad status on Facebook was about. She texted me back, saying her step-mother had passed away. I tried to reply with "awwh" but my phone autocorrected it to "ahaha." FML
Today, my friend asked me to order take out for him because he gets nervous on phones. I called a Chinese restaurant, only to get nervous, and hang up. FML
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Frenchtony 17
I did that once except that I changed it to Japanese, the FML was refused. FML
Kallian_fml 21
Time to make a new Asian friend.
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Comments (124)
godfathermock 19
You don't have your menu set up memorized?
perdix 31
Call a local Chinese restaurant and place an order for Peking Duck (shouldn't it be called Beijing Duck now? But, I digress.) Go the next day and enjoy the duck and casually ask the waiter to fix your phone. If he or she fixes it, tip them generously, otherwise 12%. The goodness of the duck should slightly outweigh the bitter disappointment of having a doorstop for a phone.
perdix 31
What's the matter? They are probably not going to want to help if you just come in for the Kung Pao Chicken lunch special. You've got to make it worth their while!
Sinistra_Blue 12
With OP's luck, if he gets a fortune cookie it will probably be in chinese too.
theunderachiever 6
Just use another friends phone(if it's the same type) as a guide for getting to the language settings. All the buttons for getting therr will be in the same place, just in a different language.
Omfgitsmia 15
Do a hard reset. You'll be able to choose a language like when you first bought it.
FML_14u2c 14
It's not THAT hard to change back. The iPhone has icons... (The language might be different, but the icon for "General" isn't -- it's the same as the one for "Settings".) In that General setting, changing the Language is under "International", the 3rd choice up from the bottom.
Schiffy 18
You're assuming that OP is using an iPhone, which is not stated.
KMCG31 3
The OP name is damniphone
d4m4s74 12
This happened to me before. Luckily I have a friend with the same phone, so I could just figure out the me way the menu is set up and just click the nth button from the top. Otherwise, just reflash or reset.
judea95 16
Just keep clicking on every option until you see the word English come up
tzoro37 9
Find someone with the same phone in English and follow what they do on your phone! Simple fix
kieralumina 30
go to settings, then the 6th tab going down (general). from there go 12 tabs down to get to the international settings. the first tab in that section sets the language for your iDevice.
tharimau 2
If this is on an iPhone, then it should be something like this (listed in Simplified Chinese; in case its in Traditional Chinese, which is another writing set, I put it in the parentheses): Go to 设置 (設置 if Traditional Chinese), or Settings. Scroll down until you see 通用 (same characters in Traditional Chinese), or General. Press 多语言环境 (語言環境 if Traditional Chinese), or Multilingual Environment (it's close to the bottom). Press the first button, 语言 (語言 in Traditional Chinese), or Languages. Hit English, and press the blue button labelled 完成 (same characters in Traditional Chinese), or finish ;)