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Last year, I shared some examples of how Christmas in Asia is celebrated in the Engrish way. Here are some more examples for this holiday season from our friend, the internets (with thanks to sites like LaurainSingapore and Engrishfunny), starting off with a vision of Santa that’s more scary than merry:
Happy holidays and enjoy:
Several of our readers recently sent us this picture of an aptly-named Asian food product:
“Cheap, fast and easy” indeed.
Anyway, I decided this was as good a time as any to post more images of food-related things from Asia where something seems to have gotten lost in translation.
Yup, I’m back with yet more examples of Engrish signs gone wrong (see previous examples here and here) ‘cause…hell, do I even need a reason? So check out this batch courtesy of our friends at Weird Asia News:
My fellow Offender Anderson stumbled upon the following unfortunately named business and sent me a snapshot:
This reminded me that I had previously blogged about unfortunately named Asian places and products, but I also realized that our friends in the East weren’t the only ones who often had a poor grasp of the English language when choosing the appropriate wording for their signs. Nope, when it comes to the use of Engrish, even our native speakers have proven themselves guilty as the following examples clearly demonstrate:
As I’ve shown in the past, when it comes to Asian to Engrish English translation, things sometimes get lost whether it’s t-shirts or products (to be fair, non-Asians also occasionally experience this problem). So for your Labor Day weekend reading enjoyment, I’m back with more examples; like this aptly named business in the Philippines:
And here are some more:
A female weatherwoman working for one of the national channels in the Zhejiang Province of China has come under fire for doing a broadcast while wearing a t-shirt with the word “fucking” clearly written on it.
To which I reply: what’s the big fucking deal?
First, she’s a cute Asian chick so that automatically excuses her from any such criticism. She can wear a shirt with a picture of Charles Manson strangling a dead puppy on it and it would still be cute ‘cause she’s so damn cute. Whereas if a fat, sweaty white dude wore the same shirt, he’s an insensitive dick and should be reprimanded.
Yes, I know it’s not even Thanksgiving, but these days it seems like Christmas comes earlier than ever (I saw my first Christmas TV commercial this year in August). So I’m jumping on the bandwagon too with our first holiday blog of the season. And what better way to kick things off then a photographic look at how our wacky Asian brethren celebrate this special time of year?
So Mary Christmas, everyone! Oh yeah, and Happy Thanksgiving, too.
When it comes to English translation, it’s not only street signs or t-shirts that our brothers and sisters in Asia seem to have trouble getting right. There’s also restaurant menus. Check out these “interesting” menu mistakes. Well, at least I hope to God these are mistakes.
The Japanese aren’t the only ones whose English-language signs lose something in the translation. Here are signs from all around Asia which obviously weren’t double-checked. Enjoy and happy weekend to all our Offenders near and far!
A few weeks ago I presented some English language t-shirts from our Asian friends where things got…lost in translation. Unfortunately (or fortunately for us), there are much more to share! Enjoy and happy weekend, everyone!
