Engrish in your daily life - sandwiches mastered

Corsair--that sounds like a perfect photo opportunity--that would be a good one for Jay Leno.

Lise--I'm now singing "Whinnie the foo" with you!

I ordered some Winnie the Foo stickers for work today, and also some Miffy stickers, though I really don't know who Miffy is...I'm going to always thing "Foo" now, too.

From a website on castles in France:

Penetrate in the universe of the castles and the French patrimony.

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Originally Posted by aka_kim

Penetrate in the universe of the castles and the French patrimony.

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Huh?



Uh-oh... http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13716134/

(Here's an excerpt "Lurning English reqierz roet memory rather than lojic, he sed.")

On a Hotel sign in El Monte,CA today:
"American First"

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My favorite wrong lyric moment occured at a farm - a bunch of us were all doing mundane chores in the seed room and singing the Beatles song "Michelle" - and during the line in French, Smokey Joe belts out

"Someday, monkeys won't play piano songs, play piano songs..."

we all froze, Joe sang a another line or 2 then realized the room had gone silent...."What? What?"

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OK, I gotta clean the screen, keyboard, MY SHIRT etc on THAT ONE!!! OMG that hurt!!!

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Originally Posted by Lise

Flatemates tend to be fairly pompous. On porpoise.

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Um, see, when I saw the word "flatemates", my mind leapt more to something along the lines of Dolly the Blow-up Sheep... :rolleyes:

I just bought a LAS helmet(Italian), and thought I'd share with you all. Obviously , their translator needs a better command of English:
Thanks to long experience grown in Different sporting fields, ... LAS Helmets is considered a point of reference in the market of protection from shocks to the head.
and from the owner's manual:
One can never know when needing a Headgear. The headgear should therefore be worn correctly every time one practice a sport

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Originally Posted by Fredwina

I just bought a LAS helmet(Italian), ...
One can never when needing a Headgear. The headgear should therefore be worn correctly every time one practice a sport

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Are you sure that's Italian?
That sounds suspiciously Chinese to me.

My old roommate just got her namebadge for her medical receptionist job. Instead of Registrar it reads Registar. Well she is one of course. However, she just got the job and her training supervisor was upset. She thought that her namebadge should be RegisDiva because she has been there for countless years. Needless to say that is not happening and my friend's badge will be corrected to the chagrin of everyone outside of corporate medicine :rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by zencentury

Are you sure that's Italian?
That sounds suspiciously Chinese to me.

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well, I did forget a word. stiil... maybe they outsourced the translation.

This is in an ad on our Beloved TE site::eek:

Descente Bliss Top
.......hem tailored specifically for women with no elastic.

(which I think I must have, because of course, I have no elastic)

Omigod, a whole thread about grammar and its wayward cousin grammer! Way to touch this copy editor's heart.

From a description of a bike recently posted for sale on eBay:

"My wife rode it once and has been in the shed ever since."

Wow, dude, what'd she do to deserve that, outpace you?

And then there are the dreaded ground beef panties:

hahahahahahaha
omg beautiful

I used to drive by this sign every day...

The best deserts IS a natural one (on a place that sold fruit cups)

After the first couple of times I saw this, I just had to avert my eyes...:rolleyes:

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I used to drive by this sign every day...

The best deserts IS a natural one (on a place that sold fruit cups)

After the first couple of times I saw this, I just had to avert my eyes...:rolleyes:

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did they mean Desserts ( a treat ) or Deserts ( a dry place ) ?
just asking.

I am assuming they mean "treat", but who knows?;)

Love it!!!!!!

A few years ago, while taking some classes at a community college, there were signs on all the hallway bulletin boards commending the girls basketball team for a winning season.

"Congradulations Lady Surge Basketball"

I went into the Arts and Humanities office and complained to my advisor asking for my money back on tution. (we had a really great relationship and laughed)

Another pet peeve - those signs at grocery stores that say 3/.99cents (can't find cent symbol) um no... it's either 3/$.99 or 3/99cents.

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And then there are the dreaded ground beef panties:

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Priceless.
I had to send that one out to friends:D

especially if they work for Neighborhhodee legal services in El Monte, CA!

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Originally Posted by SadieKate

Now see, I think that "Baby's" instead of "Babies" is unprofessional and lessens the credibiity of the medical institution. If they can't get a simple sign correct, what else can't they do right? I'd report it to Marketing immediately. It's a poor reflection on the organization.

It's not like a wayward piece of cheese.

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Amen. :D

I think that is one Siweet looking sandwich!

I think we've gotten so fast in the electonic age, that our minds are beginning to interpret what we mean...not what we type.

I noticed typos the other day in a major author's best seller the other day. It was a fluke that I noticed it though because I didn't even notice it at first...

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The best deserts IS a natural one (on a place that sold fruit cups)

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You must be in Indiana! I may be from Alabama, but I've never heard worse grammar than in Indiana! "I have went to the store" or "I have did this" or "These things is bothering me" Ugh!

OMG I just laughed my way through this thread. Thank goodness I stopped drinking coffee after page 1!

My favorites in the animal world show up time and time again. People always seem to have a philly (filly), rockweiller, or spayded animal that needs a new home. The "philly" ads were always in The Fencepost which is a rural publication. Very funny but sad.

I had a rockweiller!! Great dogs! :p (I actually make a point of butchering dog breed names to drive my daughter crazy. Beagles are bagels and SK owns a puddle.)

It was fun to read this thread again. One of my best works, starting this one... :cool:

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Originally Posted by snapdragen

That's better than what I always heard:

Wrapped up like a douche another runner in the night.....
:eek: :o

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I just have to pull this one up as I was reading this thread, because, I too thought it was "Wrapped up like a douche" but then, "you know the rumor in the night!"

And here's my contribution to the thread... a local shop wanted us to "sign our partition" for the passage of a bond issue.

An old boss of mine said he had Carpel Tundrel Syndrome.

And, this thread made me go take a recent look at Engrish.com...and I just howled. What a great site.

This thread is hilarious! The bank where I stopped to use the ATM had two signs in the drive-through:

"We will be closed on Monday in observance of Labor Day" and "We will be open Tuesday in observance of Labor Day" Huh?

Mnay of you will appreciate the handout I used a few semesters ago with a warning to my students that papers submitted in, as we say Engrish, will be graded accordingly!

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I just have to pull this one up as I was reading this thread, because, I too thought it was "Wrapped up like a douche" but then, "you know the rumor in the night!"

And here's my contribution to the thread... a local shop wanted us to "sign our partition" for the passage of a bond issue.

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So what are they really saying? I also thought it was "wrapped up like a douche"!

Does anyone remember the Cal Worthington car commercials on TV in the late 70's and early 80's? I was a little kid then and I just LOVED those ads! I think it was a Southern California thing. He always had different exotic animals walking all over the cars in his car lot. I thought the song went like this: "If you want a car or truck, ***** Cow...if you wanna save a buck, ***** Cow." It makes perfect sense...***** cats, cows, any other animal you could imagine were all featured in his commercials. As an adult, I learned that what they were really saying was "Go See Cal," not "***** Cow."

So.... here's summat I picked up on a blog -


sorry link to pic not working...

"smart noshery makes you slobber".

yep.

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So what are they really saying? I also thought it was "wrapped up like a douche"!

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You are not alone - I NEVER could figure out why douches figured so prominently in a song....

It is acutally "revved up like a Duece" (a duece coupe car that is)

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Originally Posted by Lise

It seems that email has obviated the need to even use English, much less spell it correctly, or compose sentences with any grace. Here's a line from last night's exchange with an online maybe-date:

"Lise...the same. Thank you. I am very non eecky." (and it went on, a bit more coherently)

I wrote back, asking, "what does 'non-eecky' mean?"

He replied, "I guess I am trying to telll I reread your profile and we "may" match... "May"...

At that point, I gave up. I may, or may not ever know what "eecky", or, for that matter, "non eecky" might be. :rolleyes: L.

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I love it that this thread's not dead!

And now, I will reply by quoting MYSELF from 16 months ago.

The scenario: I was on match.com (btw, I am now happily off match.com and in love with a wonderful guy --not the one cited above-- so the system can work...), and emailing with the above cited guy. We did meet. I asked him what "non-eecky" meant. He said he was trying to reassure me that he was "not icky". Not a creep. Except. That he turned out to be a creep. We had a nice first date, made a date to see each other again, which he canceled by email at midnight the night before. Then, 3 months later, he sends an email begging my forgiveness, telling me he'd been in a horrible car crash, and was recovering...I had my doubts, but wrote him back. "When", I asked, "was this accident?" Two weeks ago. Oh, you mean 2.5 months after you blew me off? You Sir, are EECKY! :p

ah, so when they say EEKY, they are ICKY.

good to know!

EEEK!

I guess non-eeky means you won't scream in fright when you see him.
Non-icky means you won't puke.

i ride by the "integrity free school" on my way to church.

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Originally Posted by PinkBike

i ride by the "integrity free school" on my way to church.

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Oh dear.
what were they thinking?
Glad it's free, who would pay for that?

simply outstanding... thank you all.

I will contribute to this someday...

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Originally Posted by Fredwina

especially if they work for Neighborhhodee legal services in El Monte, CA!

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They replaced the sign! with one that has the correct spelling! how dare they!:p

My favorite local new and used bookstore just added a new section, with a nice sign:

Used Children

poet, that is hilarious!