language hazards... like a water hazard

[branchandroot]

I want this book: Here Speeching American: A Very Strange Guide to English as It Is Garbled around the World

And you thought Engrish was bad. Examples given in the blurb:

On a Mexican bus: Keep all fours in the bus--eyes only out window

At a hotel in Vietnam: Compulsory Buffet Breakfast

At a temple in Burma: Foot Wearing Prohibited

In a Barcelona travel-agency window: Go Away

At a hotel swimming pool in France: Swimming is forbidden in the absence of the savior


That last one made me laugh until I cried.

And the moral of the story: never, ever use fangirl Japanese, because this is probably what you'd sound like to them.

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[akatonbo.livejournal.com]

Aren't I smart, looking at my friends-of. (Which I actually did because I realized I'd added so many people lately due to new fandom that my flist probably greatly exceeded my readers again.) Hello. :)

I read the entire Challenge arc today, by the way (mostly at work; I'm a bad girl but I clear my history), but I'm not sure I have anything coherent to say about it. *indicates icon instead*

[branchandroot]

Greetings, and welcome!

*blushing* And thank you. Challenge is my own favorite, so far, of everything I've written. These Rikkai muses, man, the're pushy little buggers.

*giggling* And that's a fantastic icon.