you won't believe this...

amar · Post by **amar** » Thu May 25, 2006 10:20 am

you think www.engrish.com is funny?

Paul just sent me a link...it's truely unbelievable...

http://www.rahoi.com/2006/03/may-i-take-your-order.php

(sorry, cran will believe it)

Jack · Post by **Jack** » Thu May 25, 2006 10:32 am

I believe it.

Which Paul?

amar · Post by **amar** » Thu May 25, 2006 10:33 am

this one:
http://chiffboard.mati.ca/profile.php?m ... ile&u=1004

brianc · Post by **brianc** » Thu May 25, 2006 9:57 pm

F*** the salt. (hey, they're watching out for your health)

Retchup. Oh, my. Well, I'd think so, after eating a plaster frog.

Too funny.

Silvano · Post by **Silvano** » Fri May 26, 2006 5:18 am

Awesome.

I wonder if the "last kiss" is served with potassium cyanide?

Silvano

Meadhbh · Post by **Meadhbh** » Fri May 26, 2006 5:38 am

I had a friend that was stationed in Japan for a couple of years. He said you could find "Engrish" everywhere. I think he had a coffee cup once that said "dirt good sneeze". --- Also at the time, his hair was almost white blond from being in the sun. Occasionally as he walked down a crowded street, he could feel people touching his hair. He turned around once and saw a little old lady smiling at him. Apparently it was good luck to touch the light hair?

Post by **Dale** » Fri May 26, 2006 6:02 am

"west celery fries the tripe."

I like this one in particular. If fact, I'd suggest we try to start a new figure of speech. Anything really make you angry? You say, "Man. That really fries the tripe!"

DW

djm · Post by **djm** » Fri May 26, 2006 7:38 am

"Man. That really fries my tripe!" would make it more personal.

djm

Joseph E. Smith · Post by **Joseph E. Smith** » Fri May 26, 2006 7:44 am

"That tripe is fried".... for topics that have long gone the way of the dinosaur.

Paul · Post by **Paul** » Fri May 26, 2006 9:20 am

On the other side of this, there are countless westerners walking around with tattoos of Chinese characters that mean nothing, or completely get lost in translation. We saw a guy one day that had one that was supposed to say "grave digger" It did, but in Chinese it would be understood as "basic worker who digs holes in a cemetary with a shovel and buries dead people" No Chinese person would ever get that tattooed on themselves. That would be like a Westerner having "licensed tilt-o-whirl operator" tattooed on them.

We know a Chinese girl who used to live up in Chicago.
Her neighbor came over and asked her for a phonetic translation of his ex-GF's name. The Chinese girl gave it to him and a few days later he came back to thank her. He had gotten back together with his ex and had had the chinese characters tattooed on his shoulder.

The Chinese girl was mortified because the guy was walking around with "fresh meat" tattooed on him. She actually moved to Atlanta because of it.

Hope he never gets thrown in a Chinese prison!

djm · Post by **djm** » Fri May 26, 2006 9:50 am

djm

Denny · Post by **Denny** » Fri May 26, 2006 10:03 am

never underestimate the stupidity of man.