{"id":17,"date":"2006-06-29T07:00:28","date_gmt":"2006-06-29T11:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lee-toma.com\/?p=17"},"modified":"2006-08-17T07:44:04","modified_gmt":"2006-08-17T11:44:04","slug":"bad-engrish-have-some-fried-crap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lee-toma.com\/?p=17","title":{"rendered":"Bad Engrish (Have some fried crap)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Somehow, some things just don’t seem to translate right between Asian languages and English.\u00a0 I’ve spent seven weeks in Japan, and in that time I’m sure I’ve\u00a0mangled some Japanese words and phrases pretty badly myself.\u00a0 On the other hand I saw an assortment of odd signs and translations, including:
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\n“I Feel Coke” on signs and various other places, including on t-shirts on womens’ chests
\n“Chicken Bugger” for chicken burger
\n“Romantic Sports” for clothing at a department store
\n“THE ODOR KING” (Theodor King, spelled out in windows with awkward gaps)
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\nBut others have seen much better gaffes during their travels.\u00a0 You can see them online at
\nhttp:\/\/www.engrish.com\/<\/a>
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\nAttached photos are a sampling for your pure viewing satisfaction.\u00a0 Some of them had me in stitches.
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\nLost in translation…\u00a0 Signs from Asia
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[Thanks to Martha Taylor]<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Somehow, some things just don’t seem to translate right between Asian languages and English.\u00a0 I’ve spent seven weeks in Japan, and in that time I’m sure I’ve\u00a0mangled some Japanese words and phrases pretty badly myself.\u00a0 On the other hand I saw an assortment of odd signs and translations, including: \u00a0 “I Feel Coke” on signs […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lee-toma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lee-toma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lee-toma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lee-toma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lee-toma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lee-toma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lee-toma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lee-toma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lee-toma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}