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branchandroot) wrote2005-06-13 09:35 pm
branchandroot) wrote2005-06-13 09:35 pm
language hazards... like a water hazard
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.
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 ones in China looked as if they'd been translated over directly without checking how much sense the resulting ones made.
*I can't recall any examples, though. It's been two years since my last trip there*
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