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Friday, July 08, 2005

Engrish


After my second Asian picture post a few of my readers commented on how I should check out this site Engrish.com. It's a site dedicated to the Asian butchery of our language. While traveling in the Orient I saw some Engrish personally.

In our Hotel there was a "Weeding Chapel" instead of a wedding chapel.

Across the street from our Hotel there was a "Boad Game Cafe" instead of a board game cafe.

There was jewelry store that misspelled jewelry. Is said "Jewllry Store".

And the best example of Engrish I saw is..


17 comment(s):

We just HAD to buy this because you never know when you might want to remove a lip or an eye.
Alteast it was the "sensitive" formula, because from what I've heard, lip & eye removal can be quite painful.
LOVE IT, Courty girl!

By Blogger Jamie Dawn, at Sat Jul 09, 07:08:00 PM 2005  

You got sharp eye, kiddo. This will be useful for lip and eye transplants.

By Blogger OldHorsetailSnake, at Sun Jul 10, 06:45:00 AM 2005  

Courtney and Jamie loved all the things you brought back from Korea and Japan for us. Courty I'm glad you didn't bring some of this lip and eye remover for me........LOL

We still haven't sampled all the perserved food items you brought back, and we probably never will as those dried tiny minnows in that snack bag do not appeal to me at all, but we enjoyed sampling a few of them. Nana

By Blogger Wilena, at Sun Jul 10, 09:40:00 AM 2005  

Courty when reading my previous post the last line sounded like we enjoyed eating the minnows, no, no, no, what I mean't was we enjoyed eating some of the other items in the bag....big difference..no minnows for me. Nana

By Blogger Wilena, at Sun Jul 10, 09:44:00 AM 2005  

Saturday Night Live had a fake ad once for a fluid you could dab onto offending sixth fingers to make them fall off. (They also had one for a product that made husbands more agreeable to wives called Balzoff. I'm not getting near that one...) I'm not sure when one would have a need to remove a lip or an eye, but fashion being what it is, I'm sure someone has tried to promote such things as "trendy". :)

By Blogger The Mushroom, at Sun Jul 10, 12:34:00 PM 2005  

What an incredibly useful product! Where can I get some? On the topic of Engrish, I particularly enjoy the the subtitles in bad Kung Fu films. Nice blog, I'll be back.

RCS

By Blogger Rob Seifert, at Sun Jul 10, 10:57:00 PM 2005  

Great blog. I'll be back, too. Ol' Hoss sent me.

By Blogger bornfool, at Mon Jul 11, 05:53:00 AM 2005  

I've got to show your site to my daughter, she's 16.
Loved the photo! No wonder it's labeled "sensitive".
great blog, Courtney! I'm hear via Hoss. :)

By Anonymous Laura, at Mon Jul 11, 06:41:00 AM 2005  

My cat used to show me his "third eye" all the time. Coulda used this stuff.

One of my twin granddaughters has a blog you might find interesting, or not.
Chevron.2

By Blogger Tan Lucy Pez, at Mon Jul 11, 06:59:00 AM 2005  

Oh my! That IS funny.

I want to go to a board game cafe. I wonder if they have one around here in Austin, Texas?

By Blogger Chris Nystrom, at Tue Jul 12, 11:43:00 AM 2005  

You want pirates? Arrrr, we gots pirates!

How the SeaFair Pirates have changed through the years.

By Blogger The Mushroom, at Tue Jul 12, 06:50:00 PM 2005  

That's funny!

Here's a little Engrish for you: This summer when I came home to my parent's house after graduating from college, my dad had decorated my room with balloons and stuff. One of the banners he had strung up boldly proclaimed, "Concratulations." Yup, made in Asia.

By Blogger Emily, at Tue Jul 12, 10:55:00 PM 2005  

Lip and eye remover? Sounds painful yet effective way to get your nosy neighbors to stop spying on you or to get your kid brother to shut up. ^_^

By Blogger Kitten, at Sat Jul 16, 06:08:00 PM 2005  

ha ha lipneye eremover...sounds way too funny english!

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