Engrish in your daily life - sandwiches mastered

[mtkitchn]

FGG, great story! Gave me a much needed laugh!

[Trekhawk]

I have to post my two favorites - both from the same gas station/minimart about a year apart. Both were very nice signs.

1. No gas will be sold to anyone in glass containers.

and, at the minimart counter
2. You MUST tell the cashier if you've got gas.

I was laughing so hard as I bought my soda and tried to pay for the tank I just filled at the minimart counter that the cashier took pity on me and said,
"It's OK, I know you've got gas".
It's a little scary posting to this thread, though, I'm sure I've made a few grammatical errors that hopefully won't detract from the signs.

Edit - I didn't fill up my tank at the minimart counter, I filled it up out at the pump and was trying to pay for the gas at the counter.

LOL - thats so funny.

[SadieKate]

Years ago my brother sent me an ad he found for a used Jeep. The Jeep came with "a wench and trailer hitch." He wanted to know if she hunted and fished also.

[Lise]

If someone's in a glass container, how are they going to get to the minimart anyway?

I saw the unit manager this morning--he was the perfect person to tell. He is not a nurse, which is rare in that position. He got it right away, and said he'd tell the person who made the signs. She's a lactation consultant...I hope that both of them are far enough removed from the attitudes that can prevail on a nursing unit to just fix it. I'll let you know if the baby's turn into babies!

[slinkedog]

Years ago my brother sent me an ad he found for a used Jeep. The Jeep came with "a wench and trailer hitch." He wanted to know if she hunted and fished also.

LOL! This thread is definitely keeping me laughing today!!!

Thanks, SK!

[massbikebabe]

We have a sign here on the highway that says "Squeeze Your Left". Hence
whenever I travel with DH past this sign I have to move over on my seat so that MY left don't get a little squeeze!





karen

[Trek420]

people in glass containers shouldn't throw stones at the minimart....or have gas ;-)

[Dianyla]

I'm just glad I didn't have to squeeze the orangutans!

Squeeze them? Or milk them?

I work in IT department and our team meetings look like a League of Nations assembly. I get engrish every day via email. Here's an example from today:

"And I'll lave at 5 pm tomorrow to see motorgate* broker."


* She's buying a house.

[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. L.

[maillotpois]

Boy, doesn't your mind just come up with all sorts of possible meanings for that????

[DrBee]

Hmmmm.... how about .... won't make you go "eek" when you first meet face to face???

run away... run away...

[Geonz]

Okay, does anybody else sing "We've no fewer days to sing God's Praise" on that verse in amazing grace? (I don't sing it *loudly*... but I *am* in the choir... it's the folk process, I figure. Since the rest of the choir is Korean, they probably think it's an alternative pronuncation orsomething...)

[Duck on Wheels]

Nope. Don't know that one, so can't even tell what's wrong, or guess what a Korean accent might be doing to it. But songs are a rich source of Engrish. I remember my Mom being puzzled about one popular rock song years ago. Why ever would they be singing "There's a bathroom on the right"? I'll leave you to guess the song, those of you old enough to remember it.

[Lise]

1. My sister suggested that "non eecky" might be "non tecky" (sic, of course), since he had just said that he'd lost my number when switching to a new Blackberry.

2. He just called, and we are meeting for dinner after I pick up my race packet for the tri. He seems polite, funny, employed (financial analyst), is a triathlete, about my age, and ... we shall see. The beat goes on.

3. I sing "no less days". For some reason, less/fewer does not bother me. Maybe I'm so grouchy about other errors that this one doesn't fit in my grouch-bin. L.

[Dianyla]

Why ever would they be singing "There's a bathroom on the right"? I'll leave you to guess the song, those of you old enough to remember it.

I know the song! You may enjoy this site, then:

http://www.kissthisguy.com/