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Yesterday I was laughing my head of because of the "Engrish" in songs.

If you don't know what "Engrish" is, check out this site: http://engrish.com/faq.php

Crush Alright! Crush on Hippy!
Crush Gear Ride!
...Slipping! and Stomping! Non Stop my way!!
Oh yeah!

Crush Gear TURBO: BEST PROJECT ~JAM Best Collection~.

"Maze in your Face!"
"Maze in Null Space!"
"Maze of the Haze!"

Kokuu no Meikyuu. Maze.

Hahaha. That is funny. I had never heard of that site, but i do recall reading the "engrish" off of a friends shirt. it was total nonsense. something like blue peace star.

LOL! engrish.com is one of my favorite sites. That stuff never gets old.



hehehehehe

Anoter awesome "engrish" site is Japander.com

Japander:n.,& v.t. 1. a western star who uses his or her fame to make large sums of money in a short time by advertising products in Japan that they would probably never use. ~er (see synecure, prostitute) 2. to make an *** of oneself in Japanese media.

The Arnold Schwarzenegger section (http://www.japander.com/japander/schwarz.htm) is the best!



Yeah, that's Arnold. Vote for him!

deleria wrote:Yeah, that's Arnold. Vote for him!

Sadly enough, he's a better bet than the other bozos who are running.
:rolls_eye It's ALMOST enough to make me ashamed to be a Californian.


Anywho... I LOVE the Engrish site! It's hilarious. But then, I see Americans wearing t-shirts with kanji when they have no idea what it says. Could be similarly nonsensical.

that site is hilarious

The sad thing is, I know people who'd say, "those poor Japanese...your language is too complex"
Say whaaat?

> "those poor Japanese...your language is too complex"

Yeah, I don't think we appreciate how difficult a language English is. Consider our messed-up spelling system and the huge number of irregular verbs, for example.

...and the huge number of irregular verbs, for example...

Those poor inconsonant verbs... We should get them some fiber!

shooraijin wrote:Yeah, I don't think we appreciate how difficult a language English is. Consider our messed-up spelling system and the huge number of irregular verbs, for example.

Indeed. Consider the student of English As A Second Language who gave up in frustration after reading the newspaper headline, "Bazaar Pronounced Success."

Hints on pronunciation for foreigners
George Bernard Shaw

I take it you already know
of tough and bough and cough and dough.
Others may stumble, but not you,
On hiccough, thorough, laugh and through.
Well done! And now you wish, perhaps,
To learn of less familiar traps.

Beware of heard, a dreadful word
That looks like beard and sounds like bird.
And dead-it's said like bed, not bead.
For goodness sake, don't call it deed!
Watch out for meat and great and threat.
They rhyme with suite and straight and debt.

A moth is not a moth in mother,
Nor both in bother, broth in brother,
And here is not a match for there,
Nor dear and fear for pear and bear.
And then there's dose and rose and lose
Just look them up--and goose and choose.
And cork and work and card and ward.
And font and front and word and sword.
And do and go, then thwart and cart.
Come, come I've hardly made a start.

A dreadful language? Man alive,
I'd mastered it when I was five!

That is a good poem.

Heehee That's a great poem. Wish I'd had it four weeks ago when I began my teaching stint to six Japanese exchange students. Oh, well, maybe I'll email it to the girl we were hosting, and see if she understands it.

--Kat

Thanks, I used to know someone who used it for ESL tutouring. Here's another one (anon.):

I have a spelling chequer,
It cam with my PC;
It plane lee marks four my revue
Miss steaks I can knot sea.

Eye ran this poem threw it,
your sure reel glad two no.
Its vary polished in it's weigh,
My chequer tolled me sew.

A checker is a bless sing,
It freeze yew lodes of thyme.
It helps me right awl stiles two reed,
And aides me when aye rime.

Each frays come posed uup on my screen
Eye trussed to bee a joule
The checker poured o'er every word
To checque sum spelling rule.

Be fore a veiling checkers
Hour spelling mite decline,
And if were lacks or have it laps,
We wood be maid to wine.

Butt now bee cause my spelling
Is checked with such grate flare,
Their are know faults with in my cite,
Of none eye am a ware.

Now spelling does knot phase me,
It does knot bring a tier.
My pay purrs awl due glad den
With wrapped words fare as hear.

To rite with care is quite a feet
Of witch won should be proud.
And wee mussed dew the best wee can,
Sew flaws are knot aloud.

Sew ewe can sea why aye dew prays
Such soft ware for pea seas,
And why I brake in two averse
By righting wants to pleas.

Ack... that's painful... You have no idea how long that took me to read through... craziness.

Good stuff.

Indeed

Some of my favorite "Engrish" is actually posted in downtown San Diego on an (American) street sign. The sign says "Cruise Ships Use Airport Exit."

> "Cruise Ships Use Airport Exit."

I've seen that sign, although I've never thought of it that way before.

Didn't it used to say, "Cruise Ship *Terminal*" at one stage, though?

shooraijin wrote:Didn't it used to say, "Cruise Ship *Terminal*" at one stage, though?

Hmm. That's strangely appropriate these days.

[quote="Technomancer"]I have a spelling chequer,
It cam with my PC]

I gave that to one of our english/writing instructors who almost wet herself she was laughing so hard.