Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Found Engrish- This one is for Roger

I did a lot today. Plain and simple, a lot. Since it will take me awhile to upload all of the videos and pictures from the Culture Day events, I thought I would share a little bit of something that made my day just a little bit better; Engrish. This beauty of a specimen was found by my friend Daniel while we were looking at kitchen knives in one of the malls today. I needed a new knife, and with the added Engrish, I couldn't refuse it. It was a 100円 well spent.

A plain-old blue fruit knife. Not that impressive. But if you look above my left thumb, there is a piece of gold. I will admit though, looking through my posts is about the same, if you really take the time to pick everything apart, there are enough comma splices and semi-colon mistakes to make any grammar hound laugh.



Really? Come on now, "The thinking which it cut is hard to stick to a knife." I know what they are trying to get at.. but they missed the mark by a good 10 yards.

The back of the package also reads at one spot, "After use, wash it with the sponge of the soft cloth, and the detergent for the tableware, and wipe off the moisture well with the dried cloth."

Enjoy.

3 comments:

Unknown said...

i love the engrish man its just great!!!

Lauren said...

This brings back memories...have you seen http://engrish.com/? One of my favorites years back, found on kids' pencil cases, was a stick figure drawing of a girl and a boy, the girl pointing at the boy's, er, mid-section, and the caption read: "I write a poem to the boyfriends thing."

Try to get to Kanazawa if you can, as well the Noto Peninsula--both well worth a visit.

Lauren, Carolyn's friend in Nicaragua

Samuel said...

Ha ha! I like it. I have been to Engrish.com, but had forgotten about it until you reminded me. Thank you. Also, thank you for the wonderful advice. I would love to go to Kanazawa and the Noto Peninsula. I will look into them more, my spring break here is 2 months long. Plenty of time to travel then. One of the places I would really like to visit is Matsue. I hope all is well in Nicaragua.

Sam