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Posted: 27 August 2008 03:02 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 12 ]
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http://www.engrish.com/detail.php?imagename=special-olympics.jpg&category=CHINGLISH&date=2008-07-21
Has to be fake.

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“…Which is cool”
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Posted: 27 August 2008 03:57 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 13 ]
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Agreed, since most premade sign lettering doesn’t include backwards ‘S’ bits..

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          Romanos olim necavit
              Iam vere me necat

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Posted: 27 August 2008 04:06 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 14 ]
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Robin Bobcat - 27 August 2008 03:57 PM

Agreed, since most premade sign lettering doesn’t include backwards ‘S’ bits..

Maybe they just turned them upside-down.  Along with the O’s.  cheese wink

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“There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.“

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Posted: 27 August 2008 05:02 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 15 ]
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I’ve been going through these (And there IS a lot).
This one caught my eye:
http://www.engrish.com/detail.php?imagename=toilet-beard-know.jpg&category=CHINGLISH&date=2007-11-14

Potty Humor. Sorries.

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“Is that thing cool or what? The Black Hole…”
“What you’re looking at is called the accretion disk. It’s matter trapped in the gravity well. You can’t actually see the black hole itself.”
“…Which is cool”
- Stargate: SG-1
“If I had a quarter for every time I said “If I had a nickel…“” - Stephen Colbert

“Trying to uproot something that doesn’t want to be moved… Well, no good can come from that”

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Posted: 27 August 2008 05:04 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 16 ]
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Oh goodness.

Just when I thought I’d would post my last link, this beauty came up (Right after the last one).

http://www.engrish.com/detail.php?imagename=notice-slip-carefully.jpg&category=CHINGLISH&date=2007-11-11
Made me chuckle. I may have to use that as an avatar some day.

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“Is that thing cool or what? The Black Hole…”
“What you’re looking at is called the accretion disk. It’s matter trapped in the gravity well. You can’t actually see the black hole itself.”
“…Which is cool”
- Stargate: SG-1
“If I had a quarter for every time I said “If I had a nickel…“” - Stephen Colbert

“Trying to uproot something that doesn’t want to be moved… Well, no good can come from that”

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Posted: 28 August 2008 02:41 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 17 ]
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Yeah. Engrish really does have some hideously wonderful mistranslations. I’ve often thought that if I ever lived in another country, I would offermy services as a low-cost translator, correcting things like this to better improve the perception by tourists..

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    Est mortuissima
          Romanos olim necavit
              Iam vere me necat

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