When you first get here, English shirts and signs are the funniest things you've ever seen in your life. After a while, you get used to regularly seeing the English language abused and Engrish stops being all that funny. This sign in my grocery store still makes me smile every time I see it, though. "These fresh fishes &seafood have their own reasons. For, it's our duty to bring you good and fresh fishes from sea of japan and all over the world."
What's the most interesting English you've seen here?
3 comments:
I'm guessing you've seen this site but if not, here's a link:
http://www.engrish.com/
Some of them are really quite hilarious. Love the blog by the way. I just recently discovered it inadvertently and I'm spending far too much time reading it so please stop making it so bloody entertaining! I'm an American of Japanese ancestry who has never been there so your observations and insights are fascinating.
Hey, thanks! I'm glad you like it. I think everyone should come to Japan. I really love it here and I am never bored. I feel lucky to be in a place where I learn new things every day. Thanks for reading this site!
Hmmm... engrish.com can be funny but it kind of gets old. After all, there are people in the West with stupid Kanji written backwards or missing essential parts. Ha.
Though I did see "crepe shop" misspelled as "creep shop" on that sight and cracked right up!!!
sight - site
Haha.
Awesome that I messed up and wrote that in a comment about people misusing English.
Post a Comment