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Eccentric Iconoclast Vice Captain
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 Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 1:23 pm
chocfudge Go check it out and have some laughs! xd Mon dieu, I love Engrish.Com. rofl xd
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Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2006 12:49 pm
Eccentric Iconoclast chocfudge Go check it out and have some laughs! xd Mon dieu, I love Engrish.Com. rofl xd  This picture actually was taken in China. 'Kicking balls' as in 'playing soccer'!!! whee edit_ the picture won't show up, so just go see for yourself under Engrish From Other Countries. kicking balls
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Posted: Tue May 09, 2006 10:07 am
I don't like mushrooms. At all. SO. I tried to explain this to one of my host mothers while I was in Japan:
ME: I don't like to eat koneko.
HER: eek What? You eat koneko?
ME: No, I don't like it.
HER: People in Canada eat koneko?
ME: Yeah, my dad loves to eat them. It's one of his favourite foods. I don't like it.
HER: gonk
... later that night she surved me mushrooms anyways and I remembered that KONEKO and KINOKO are not the same thing. I said that my dad loves eating kittens. rofl
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Posted: Tue May 09, 2006 4:50 pm
notascleverasyou I don't like mushrooms. At all. SO. I tried to explain this to one of my host mothers while I was in Japan: ME: I don't like to eat koneko. HER: eek What? You eat koneko? ME: No, I don't like it. HER: People in Canada eat koneko? ME: Yeah, my dad loves to eat them. It's one of his favourite foods. I don't like it. HER: gonk ... later that night she surved me mushrooms anyways and I remembered that KONEKO and KINOKO are not the same thing. I said that my dad loves eating kittens. rofl ... rofl That's really bad. xDDD
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Eccentric Iconoclast Vice Captain
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Posted: Tue May 09, 2006 6:15 pm
notascleverasyou I don't like mushrooms. At all. SO. I tried to explain this to one of my host mothers while I was in Japan: ME: I don't like to eat koneko. HER: eek What? You eat koneko? ME: No, I don't like it. HER: People in Canada eat koneko? ME: Yeah, my dad loves to eat them. It's one of his favourite foods. I don't like it. HER: gonk ... later that night she surved me mushrooms anyways and I remembered that KONEKO and KINOKO are not the same thing. I said that my dad loves eating kittens. rofl
I'll surely make mistakes like this when I'll go to jap in August :scared: sweatdrop
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Posted: Sun May 28, 2006 8:11 pm
There was this one time when Pres. Eisenhower was in Japan, and they wish him a good election... But, they don't have "l"s, instead they have "r"s... Replace the "l" with an "r" in election. Now see the big sign:
"We wish for Pres. Eisenhower's erection!"
XDDDD
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Posted: Sun Jul 02, 2006 4:44 pm
Japanese hotel room: "You can take advantage of our maid anyway you want."
rolleyes
Talked with a girl from Peru today who told me how her husband snores, and how she tried to tell her Swedish friends that. Although she couldn't remember what the Swedish word for snoring was so she said it in Spanish instead. Problem is, the Spanish word for snoring sounds almost exactly as a rude Swedish word for masturbating, so she ended up telling everyone that her husband did just that all night keeping her awake xd
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Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2006 3:55 pm
sign: Rear Service Department
Go through the back door...
sign: AHC Anti hot and cold
Let's face it: we're still warming up to warm...
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Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 8:58 am
a n a c h r o n i c I'll try to do my Japanese oral exam and say things like "Je wa Houston ni allez." I'm always replacing 'est' with 'wa' in French!
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Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 12:06 am
Chikiya a n a c h r o n i c I'll try to do my Japanese oral exam and say things like "Je wa Houston ni allez." I'm always replacing 'est' with 'wa' in French! xD Me too. And now that I've started learning Russian, it's not uncommon to completely leave out the verb 'être' in the present tense. gonk
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Eccentric Iconoclast Vice Captain
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Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 5:57 pm
Sometimes I'll say random words in either spanish or japanese out of nowhere... but it's pretty rare...
As for foregin languge blunders, here's an amusing one. My boyfriends native language is spanish, so one day at school I was writing a little love note (in spanish, as quite a few of my love notes are), and one of my spanish-speaking friends happened to be reading the not over my shoulder, and she corrected me on one of the phrases I was using. As it turned out, the way I was ending my letters didn't exactly mean "I love you lots and lots!" as I thought it did, but it more or less meant "I deeply desire you(in a sexual way)". rofl
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Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 1:17 pm
It's not happened to me (that I can remember) but one of my friends once told her French teacher:
"Vous êtes derrière. Très assez."
in English: You are butt. Very pretty.
The teacher's face was so funny! She was made to do whole exercises on the difference between avoir and être. And she still hasn't quite explained why she was telling the teacher she has a nice butt...
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Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 3:48 pm
I saw a picture of a Japanese sign that had an English caption "Excellent Room." What it meant was "Staff Room."
Engrish is naaaaaasty. xp
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Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 12:58 pm
I always get confused with the 'want' in russian.
It's either hochu, hotit, hochat, and there's a wide variety and I'm always confused. crying
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Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 8:11 pm
Well, I'm sure you're all familiar with the JFK quote when he visited Berlin. "Ich bin ein Berliner!" (correctly translated= I am a jelly donut!)
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