Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Engrish Part 3

Presenting engrish part 3.

In this Japanese movie called ("A Cheerful Gang Turns the Earth") there was this one scene were this old man was painting the billboard while listening on some criminals' conversations. While he was painting he was distracted and put an 'H' instead of an 'E.' Later in the movie they corrected the sign to say 'Peace' not 'Peach.'

(Bring on the peaches!)

While wandering the Western Houses section of Kobe, I found this sign.

(This describes my life...)

I found this sign in the Osaka subway system. To put some context, during orientation of Kansai Gaidai they told us if we are underground during an earthquake we should "put a bag over our heads." Some of my friends thought they meant the plastic grocery bags and what if our bags have really heavy books...how will that save us?

Anyways the sign says in Japanese "tenraku toki ha, hoomu shita ni hinanshite kudasai." The direct translation would be "When there is a (earthquake) fall please take refuge under the platform." This is probably not as funny but I had to pause at the words "accidental fall."

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