Engrish.com. Because it's been too long.

[crim son]

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&category=Engrish%20from%20Other%20Countries&date=2006-11-28

&category=Adult%20Engrish&date=2006-08-04


Every time I to to this site I laugh until I think I'm going to throw up. :rofl:

[belladonna]

1. This is why I hang in the Lounge so much

No matter what kind of day I'm having, I (almost) always leave with a smile on my face or end up like this: :rofl:

Thanks for the laugh :hi:

[crim son]

2. Very happy to oblige! n/t

[trof]

3. Mine: "Cabin Sings".

Long story short:
I worked for a Japanese airline for 10 years.
Instead of giving us the English Boeing 747 flight handbook to study, they gave us one that had been translated from the original English into Japanese and then translated back into Engrish.
Except we called it 'Japlish'.
You can imagine.

Where it should have said 'Cabin Signs ON' (seatbelt/no smoking), it said 'Cabin Sings'.
So we sang 'I've been working on the railroad'.
Our Japanese instructor didn't know what to make of this.
;-)

[crim son]

4. Some of it is really rather charming.

OTOH, somewhere out there is a shop called "Turd Baby." :rofl:

[KamaAina]

5. Survival Engrish from upper Manhattan

Every neighborhood in NYC has at least one Chinese restaurant. This includes Spanish-speaking neighborhoods as well, like my old one. So the operators doggedly attempted to translate their menu into Spanish...

They ended up with "Moo Goo Gai Cacerola"! There is a Spanish word for "Pan", you see, but not for "Moo", "Goo" or "Gai"! :rofl:

edit: English spelling :dunce:

[trof]

6. Cacerola...casserole...I GET it!

[crim son]

7. Another good one!

&category=Signs/Posters&date=2006-06-01

[Initech]

8. Found the perfect way to get the pro-war people on our side!

[cwydro]

9. Thank you sweetie

I need a laugh so much tonight.

[crim son]

11. Are you okay?

Your post earlier had me a bit worried. You rejected my Pantz :cry: Let me know if I can do anything to help, okay?

[mainegreen]

10. That site is one of the few I check every day. I love it!

[crim son]

12. It always does the trick.

You must know the "dog sauce" sign, then. One of my personal favorites :0

[mainegreen]

14. You might get a kick out of this

Really really badly (and funny) translation of a menu:
http://www.rahoi.com/2006/03/may-i-take-your-order.php

[crim son]

15. OMG. I have to send that one to a few people.

"I'll have the J&J large intestine pot with an order of sheet iron on the side." Thanks for sharing it!

[otherlander]

20. OMG.

I actually fell on the floor laughing. Not kidding. THANK YOU!!! :rofl:

[tuvor]

13. This one still makes me spit all over my monitor.

Years ago, Percy Faith played a concert in Tokyo. The orchestra was on stage. The conductor lifted his baton. A drum roll began as the horn players lifted their instruments in preparation. A japanese "translator" announces over the PA system, "Ladies and Gentlemen, please welcome Pussy Face!". The horn players were all laughing so hard they couldn't play. The drum roll had to continue for quite a while.

http://www.engrish.com/fromyou/fromyou1999.php

[crim son]

16. LOL!

I know it's a bad thing to make fun of poor translations and accents. That said, when I read about this: A t-shirt with a mouse carrying a gun sporting the slogan "I'm on a pussy hunt" - I stop for a moment and wonder if there is in fact any problem with the translation!!

[SPKrazy]

17. A Mouse Carrying A Gun

with a t-shirt that said "I'm on a pussy hunt"

lost in translation?

or maybe a horny mouse?

[crim son]

18. Or just somebody's wicked sense of humor.

It seems impossible that that particular idiom isn't widely understood. Guess it's not, though.

[SPKrazy]

19. Well, You Never Know

maybe they took the online Engrish course done by someone who wants to teach people the wrong things to say?

Or maybe it is just wicked humor.

Or a horny mouse