Engrish in your daily life - sandwiches mastered

[sundial]

Drove by a house that had a sign that read For Sail.

[TsPoet]

Drove by a house that had a sign that read For Sail.

Was it a houseboat?

[carpaltunnel]

Like those who have such tatoos...but may not know how to read the language at all...except for that single tatoo.

I work with a young man who is now sporting a new expensive tattoo, one (he says) Chinese character. He told me what he was told it means. I asked him how he knew it didn't say "I got this sucker's money!" He wasn't amused. Anyway, its kind of a neat graphic, but would you get something tatooed on your body that you couldn't read yourself?

[Zen]

I told a guy his tattoo says "eat more chicken"

[Zen]

I was just at the 7-11 where a guy ordered something with "monetary jack cheese".

I could use some monetary jack myself

[maillotpois]

Was it a houseboat?

SNORT!!!

[crazycanuck]

K..this scene from Pulp Fiction reminded me of this thread....

Jules: What does Marcellus Wallace look like?
Brett: What?
Jules: What country you from?
Brett: What?
Jules: What ain't no country I ever heard of. They speak English in What?

[Grog]

I am a big fan of Japanese notebooks, which usually have really nice paper.

Sometimes, though, they are a bit too "decorated" for my taste, and the little messages printed on every page can get a bit corny. This one wins the prize:


(thanks to Elena777 from Flickr)

[deeaimond]

I work with a young man who is now sporting a new expensive tattoo, one (he says) Chinese character. He told me what he was told it means. I asked him how he knew it didn't say "I got this sucker's money!" He wasn't amused. Anyway, its kind of a neat graphic, but would you get something tatooed on your body that you couldn't read yourself?

when i worked in a waterpark in the US i saw alot of 'chinese' tattoos... i saw a man with 10 characters on his nape and i couldn't figure out what it was (i read some chinese) I mean, my chinese isn't fantastic but I can read a simple newspaper. So i asked him what it was and he said it spelt out his childrens' names, sally and jason...

chinese characters are not letters in an alphabet. all characters have a complete sound and meaning...

so basically it was all pure rubbish..

I also had a girlfriend who had a random character on her back, which she said was love, but i knew for a fact it wasn't... but her response to that was that she didn't wanna go around thinking that the tattoo was a wrong one so she'd rather go on believing it was what she said it was.

after that i learnt to keep my mouth shut. I mean... it would be pretty tough to know u had some rubbish that u paid alot of money for tattooed permanently on yr body

as for the tattoo parlours, they don't care. I walked into one which had displayed its chinese characters upside down.. the salesgirl pretty much snorted when i told her they were upside down. they don't care. they just wanna make money.