Invitation

Today, an invitation to the wedding of two Indonesian people I have never met was hand delivered to me with my name printed clearly on the front. The invitation contains general information such as who is getting married (Widya and Ardi), when (this coming Saturday), and where (in Solo). But the part that intrigued me the most was the... uhmm... poem (maybe?) included at the end. It reads as follows, verbatim:

Infact Our world of beautiful, actually world is full surprise,
Until we meet with beautiful way and time in praying to God...
Not exaclly season and time the people planing not popiet with there hope
We just have desire and praying, but only God who have powerfull than as...
But exactlly season and time I LOVE YOU, always...
Like the sunrise start the day and sunset for night. I always with you.
So many thing will I share, so many thing will I so.....
Since we meet and than make comitment still day and forever
Our love, Widya and Ardi shall never die...

There are several things that stand out to me about this invitation.
1. How do they know my name? I do not know these people.
2. They spelled "exactly" two different ways. Even if you're not sure how to spell it, you could at least be consistently wrong.
3. When I try to translate this back into Indonesian and ponder it carefully, I still have NO CLUE what is being said.
4. What the heck is a popiet?
5. In spite of the rest of the poem, they really mostly nailed that last line, you have to admit.

If I ever live in Indonesia and don't work for the school, I am going to open a translation proofreading business. If you spent just a day in my small city, you would be amazed at the gross overuse (and even grosser under-accuracy) of English in advertising. It is the cool thing to do. But it is 99% of the time oh, so wrong. I often stare at banners, billboards, fliers, brochures, etc and scream, "LET ME HELP YOU!" I seriously wonder how much money I could make if I charged even just a penny per line of text to proofread. I'm going to be so rich. It's really a shame that it's illegal for me to have any other income outside of the school while I'm on a school visa. Sigh.