Engrish in your daily life - sandwiches mastered

[Nanci]

There's a sign at work I have to take a picture of, something like please excuse the construction to better improve the area.

Better improve??

Nanci

[Lise]

Better improve??

Improve it better than they improved it last time, please forgive, they didn't improve it so good last time, but this time it will be better improved...

OK! Every body sing along! Winnie the Foo! Winnie the Foo! Cubby little chubby all stuffed with fluff, he's Winnie the Foo! Winnie the Foo! Cubby little chubby ol' bear!
My mind is not my friend sometimes.

[maillotpois]

So does that mean Winnie's part of the Foo Fighters?

Edit: My bedrest is not going to be good for any of us.

[Nanci]

If only you knew the many things I resist writing...

[CorsairMac]

or my personal favourite?

picture a strip mall with the foot doctors' office in the very back.

The sign on the very busy street reads:

"Foot Doctor in Rear".

I kid you not!

[ladyfish]

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!

[Nanci]

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.

[aka_kim]

From a website on castles in France:

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

[yellow]

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

Huh?



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

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

[Fredwina]

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

[mary9761]

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?"

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

[DirtDiva]

Flatemates tend to be fairly pompous. On porpoise.

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

[Fredwina]

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

[Zen]

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

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

[madscot13]

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