Menu from a coffee shop in Shanghai, China.
Don't get a tattoo in a language you don't understand. Especially with these templates. www.hanzismatter.com
Continental Airline's advertisement with Chinese in Houston airport (IAH). 我的头发冷 can be read as 我的头发+冷"my hair is cold" & 我的头+发冷 "my head is getting cold".
So quick that it is missing an "I".
Minneapolis restaurant Chino Latino use pseudo-Chinese characters as profanity alternatives in billboard ad.
When Fanta alone is no longer enough.
Flesh of round-eyed customers for laughing at Engrish labels.
Corn & Cheese ice cream, who eats that?
What kind of meat?
Nice up-side box for knife-care kit
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=881
If Walgreen's employees "were going nuts", what are they doing now? Or, it should have read "We're Going Nuts"
One would think people working at a bookstore could avoid making basic spelling error.
Martino Martini : Sinicae Historiae decas prima, 1658
Charakter anciens
http://www.hanzismatter.com/2009/03/pure-child.html
Dan Brown's Digital Fortress, The painful quote about "Mandarin symbols" and "Kanji language".
http://www.thedailyshow.com/full-episodes/index.jhtml?episodeId=225122
September 2009 issue of GQ magazine
from: Chris S. to: tiangotlost@gmail.com date: Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 9:49 PM subject: Tattoo Translation Hello My uncle just got this Tattoo and I was curious to know what it says. I'm hoping he didn't get tricked and got something ridiculous. from Chris S.
from: Samantha M. to: tiangotlost@gmail.com date: Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 2:00 AM subject: My tattoo Could you tell me what this means? I was young and dumb and was told it meant "Power" Thank you Sami
from Karl B to tiangotlost@gmail.com date Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 3:34 AM subject Restaurant sign Hi, There's a sushi restaurant in Stockholm with this sign http://imgb.mp/d7o which is obviously not japanese, but even in chinese it doesn't *appear* to say anything coherent. Care to shed any light on it, despite it not being a tattoo? - Karl
