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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.

Date: 2005-06-13 06:45 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ladyvorkosigan.livejournal.com
I met a Spanish guy once who told me that when the Olympics came to Spain a local restaurant translated their menu into English. So Rape Marinero (the rape fish cooked in a certain way) because "Rape Sailer-style".

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