Broken English

[Rosbjerg]

Now I guess we've all heard or read some pretty amusing translations (into english) in our time .. especially if someone uses a phrase from his own country which doesn't quite mean the same in English!

 

I've got this book full of these and I thought it would be a good idea to share some of the most outrageous of these!

 

hope you enjoy! ^_^

 

Go Away - a sign in the window of a spanish travel agency

 

Olof Palme could bot come because he has a abad influence - cancelling a pressconference

 

I thank for giving my wife and me the clap. I thank you from the heart of my bottom - french-canadian politician

 

We have hardly tried to get you the information you asked for - a letter of correspondance from a norwegian firm

 

May I have your office telephone number and your privates? - Japanese secretary

 

Excuse me what is the fart limit? - a Swedish driver in England

 

Do not put foreign bodies into the lavatory - from an SAS airplane

 

Visitors are expected to complain at the office between 9 and 11 daily - hotel in Anthens

 

Ladies are requested not to have children in the bar - Sign in a norwegian bar

 

Studding i Cape Town is a great oppertunity for me to look at the world from a different angle - a student applying to a college

 

The report was signes by five faulty members of the University - English newspaper

 

Received a plague for Salesperson of the Year - from a CV

 

Please feel yourself at home - welcome sign in an airport in Thailand

 

We take your bags and send them in all directions - SAS Denmark

 

Beware of greasy corner where lurk skid demon. Cease step on, approach slowly, round cautiosly, resume step on gradually. - roadguide, Japan

 

Kinki Nippon Tourist Company changed their name, after several request for sex-trips, to Dai Young Travel ...

 

Passage of deformed man supermaket - entrance for handicapped, China

 

The provision of a large French widow in every room adds to the visitor's comfort. - Spanish Hotel

 

please do not bring solicitors into your room - hotel, Thailand

 

Guest are requested not to smoke or do other disgusting things in bed - Japanese hotel

 

Cooles and heates, if you want condition of warm air in your room, please control yourself. - usermanual on a airconditioner

 

Please leave you values at the front desk - hotel in Paris

 

because of the impropriety of entertaining guests of the opposite sex in the bedroom, it is suggested that the lobby be used - hotel

 

why not try our sauna baths? if you are lucky you might get a sausage - norwegian sauna

 

in case of fire, please stuff a towel under the door and expose yourself at the windowv - Hotel in Finland

 

if your are satisfactory, please tell you friends. If you are not saticfactory, please tell the waiter - Chinese restuarant

 

plenty more .. but I haven't got all day! and feel free to add your own finds ..

[Musopticon?]

why not try our sauna baths? if you are lucky you might get a sausage - norwegian sauna

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

What's so broken in that? Lots of norwegians gladly give you sausage in saunas.

 

I am satisfactory.

[kirottu]

Engrish.

[WinterSun]

Kinki Nippon Tourist Company changed their name, after several request for sex-trips, to Dai Young Travel ...

 

And leave a good-looking corpse?

[mkreku]

 

Edit: Had to change picture server.

Edited December 18, 2005 by mkreku

[Janmanden]

Fart limit, that's a good one. Probably best understood by Scandinavians.

 

Sild vous plait? Danish-french relationship around the christmas table...

[Authority]

For some reason I always find these things hystericly funny, its really bordering on abnormal. I suppose it is because I was given a similar book as a child.

 

 

 

"How plenty is the bell?"

 

-overheard at a pub in sweden.

[Judge Hades]

I am sure there are hilarity in misinterpretations on all sides of the language barrier.

 

When I was taking Spansish in High School I mispronounced a couple of words and got detention.

[Rosbjerg]

it's a danish book (actually norwegian) called "Broken English spoken perfectly"

[Darth_Schmarth]

Anyone named Ken around here?