Tag: Engrish
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Zoo Engrish
This Engrish picture today comes from Forumosa, a popular meeting and discussion place for expats and Taiwanese. At first it seems rather incomprehensible, but thanks to some of the Chinese speakers at Forumosa, it was quickly decoded. The first sentence means “No destruction of property.” The second sentence is really odd, but it’s just a…
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Engrish movies I
I’m a big fan of movies and generally watch quite a few. Even in Taiwan, I like to go to Blockbuster and rent a few every few weeks. I also enjoy staying home and just catching whatever is on HBO, Starz, or Cinemax. I’m often fascinated with the Chinese translations for American movies. They are…
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Engrish Ketchup
Another little gem from some restaurant. King’s Soce Ketchup. It was, apparently, supposed to be “King’s Sauce” but either through bad spelling, bad luck, or bad software, it ended up as “Soce.”
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Engrish kitty treats
Miss Expatriate and I wandered into the local pet store after dinner and started perusing the cat section to find some treats for our cat. We ended up finding some small twigs from a Japanese tree, which are apparently wildly popular with cats. Our cat really loves them – like catnip, but without a mess…
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Macgyver Outdoor Store
Miss Expatriate and I went to Taichung yesterday to do some shopping and have dinner. While walking on the street, we happened upon this gem of a store: The Macgyver Outdoor Store. It doesn’t really have anything to do with Macgyver, other than putting “Macgyver” in the title might possibly attract westerners who grew up…
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Recycling
Just another Engrish picture tonight. This one comes from a disposable chopsticks cover at a local restaurant. What they obviously mean to say is to please recycle the wrapper, which is odd because very few people are going to take this out of the restaurant. (click for full size) It’s interesting to note here that…
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Engrish Chips
These pictures were taken with a cellphone in the grocery store, so pardon the blurriness and general craptastic quality. It’s hard to read, but it says “Best Tasty. Excellent dose of delicious food adds onions. Crispy crispy good flavour.” This last one, also, has an “Excellent dose of onions.”
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Engrish……. in Audio!
I frequent a number of forums. One of them had a link to a website by a nice Chinese woman named Wing. Wing is a singer. She sings covers of other bands and sells her CDs on the website. She covers bands like The Beatles, Elvis, and AC/DC. That’s right. Wing sings AC/DC. Take a…
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Ingenious Tea!
This will be the first of hopefully many posts with an “Engrish” tag. For those of you who don’t know, Engrish is generally humorous English sayings or very bad English translations in English countries. I’m going to start my own collection here. I noticed this gem while shopping at an RT Mart today. What’s really…