RE: Engrish from around the World.....
March 10, 2012 at 11:03 am
(This post was last modified: March 10, 2012 at 11:03 am by Cyberman.)
Those are great!
When I was a young teen I went on a big family holiday to Devon where we spent a day hiking around a massive rocky bluff thing known as Baggy Point. The trail we were following ended literally right at the cliff edge, where a helpful sign informed us that "It is dangerous to go past this point".
Then there was this roadsign in Wales that hit the news not so long ago. Swansea Council emailed the English they wanted translated for the sign to the appropriate translating department and then made the signs up with what the reply contained. Unfortunately what they ended up with was this:
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which translates as "I am not in the office at the moment. Send any work to be translated."
When I was a young teen I went on a big family holiday to Devon where we spent a day hiking around a massive rocky bluff thing known as Baggy Point. The trail we were following ended literally right at the cliff edge, where a helpful sign informed us that "It is dangerous to go past this point".
Then there was this roadsign in Wales that hit the news not so long ago. Swansea Council emailed the English they wanted translated for the sign to the appropriate translating department and then made the signs up with what the reply contained. Unfortunately what they ended up with was this:
which translates as "I am not in the office at the moment. Send any work to be translated."
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
