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Feb 8 05: science experiment
Hey, I was wondering: If you were to open browser windows to engrish.com (which chronicles noteworthy appearances of faux-English in Asia) and Hanzi Smatter (which concerns itself with misuses of Chinese and/or Japanese script in the West, esp wrt tattoos) on one computer at the same time, would there be a huge explosion? Somebody try this and tell me.
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I admit to my ethnocrenticity and feel that engrish.com is much funnier and would neutralize hanziSmatter. But you gotta give the japanese credit at least they´re not tatooing engrish on themselves (I hope) in some pathetic search for western mysticism.
Oddly enough today I´m puzzling together a collage, as a birthday card, of photos of signs in Thailand which are very engrish.
My absolute all time favorite was a sign I saw in Bombay in 1979; “Mohan Singhs Furniture and Inferior Decorations”
I feel I´ve earned the right to laugh cruelly in enjoyment at other peoples mistakes as I have happily and innocently provided (and am continuing to provide) many hours of entertainment to natives all over the world by many insane and inane attempts to communicate in their languages.
Nowadays I provide much amusement just by attempting to communicate in what was once my own native tongue, english.
I speak and write fluent Swenglish though.
posted by jc, Feb 9 05 3:31 AM
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