language hazards... like a water hazard
Jun. 13th, 2005 09:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
branchandrootI 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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Date: 2005-06-13 07:53 pm (UTC)*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.