Real Engrish

[c-square]

This topic is for any bad English you find in real life.

Here are some examples from a trip I took to Japan a long time ago (I can't believe it's been 11 years already!).

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- This is the space...

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- At least they're honest about it.

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(Taken on a public bus)
- For those times when you just gotta have one. 

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(Warning: Contains profanity)
- Hey, it's biodegradable.

[CarpetCrawler]

Easy, right away this comes to mind!!

[NotSoFluent]

When my public-speaking coach was visiting Japan, she came across a hair salon called "The Hair Cook Pit."  Yeah.

[hakkaino7]

What's the emergency cock supposed to be? 

[GinRei]

What's the emergency cock supposed to be? 

When she absolutely, positively, has to have it now.

[sdf1macross]

What's the emergency cock supposed to be? 

When she absolutely, positively, has to have it now.

Man!! GinRei, That was an awesome reply, I was laughing so hard 

[ranger]

What's the emergency cock supposed to be? 

When she absolutely, positively, has to have it now.

LOL I think any guy can have a good laugh at that.

[hakkaino7]

What's the emergency cock supposed to be? 

When she absolutely, positively, has to have it now.

LOL!... I meant what it's supposed to be without the non-typo/bad-engrish thingy

[Akonyl]

I'd guess it's some sort of emergency lever, or other mechanism which you can cock.

[c-square]

What's the emergency cock supposed to be? 

It was a lever you were supposed to pull that would let you open the doors to the bus in an emergency.

[Kor]

A couple of years ago, a journalist sent this to a politician in Netherlands:

The mother your visit in Israel is a sleep to the favor or to the bad your mind on the conflict are Israeli Palestinian, and on relational Israel Holland

[ccppfan]

A couple of years ago, a journalist sent this to a politician in Netherlands:

The mother your visit in Israel is a sleep to the favor or to the bad your mind on the conflict are Israeli Palestinian, and on relational Israel Holland

Okay, whoever can translate this gets a cookie. XD

[hakkaino7]

A couple of years ago, a journalist sent this to a politician in Netherlands:

The mother your visit in Israel is a sleep to the favor or to the bad your mind on the conflict are Israeli Palestinian, and on relational Israel Holland

Okay, whoever can translate this gets a cookie. XD

He said... "Mr Politician dude! I slept with yo mama since you have a bad mind!"

[Kor]

The journalist was of course Israeli. They asked the journalists to prepare their questions before the interview and send it to the politician so he'll know how to answer, though...I doubt he could answer this.

The journalist used a translation program which as it seems, sucked big time.

[miakakiri]

My mom bought a toy once which had a TON of engrish on the package... I don't have the package anymore, nor do I have any pictures of it, but I copied the text. (Cut 'cause it's long.)

Spoiler:

Universal Ball

front of package [discription]{I am reading this off the box as I type!})
        Universal ball, with a rubber ring outside of universal ball and a peace magnetic in side the core, can generate irregular magnetic field. This magnetice fied can help you to stimulate the key point in your hand. If put the rubber ring at any part on your body when the ball rolling fast, it can help you to do massage


Back of package [instructions]: ({again, this is how it appears on the package!})
        (1) Roll the yellow ball and find the hole, Put the rope into the hole, and roll the ball slowly.
        (2) Let the rope wide two circle around the yellow ball tightly.
        (3) Hold the green part of the ball, do not touch the yellow ball. pull out the rope quickly, and let the ball rolloing.
        (4) Move your palm slowly, and let the ball rolling as fast as possible. The faster the ball rolling, the more power it generated. You must hold the ball very tightly, it will falling down. ({Miaka has to stop typing because she's laughing hard at this last line.})

Er, I sorta copy-pasted that from an old lj entry--this was back in May of '03.