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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[the-tower.livejournal.com]

there was one about a Chinese hotel (don't remember whether it was in China or Hong Kong or Taiwan) where they had a sign on the door that said "Please use our chambermaids in any way"

hee hee hee...

[branchandroot]

*snorfles* Oh, jeez...