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My wife's parents are living in Indonesia, and they recently sent some toys for their grandson's birthday. Interestingly, the boxes and stickers are all in English, sort of. This is a collage of (1) the box to some sort of fire-rescue-vehicle, (2) the box to a bulldozer, & (3) several stickers from a remote-control car.

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Ha ha ha! Great stuff. 3 styles powerful! I needed that, I just got home from work where I've been helping a customer in China whose english good so not for the last half of my shift. ENGRISH LOCKS! If you haven't already, and find lost in translation sort of things funny, check out engrish.com...

I'm gonna guess that a "Genesis Distinction Chariot" would be a "First Class Car"...hehe...

ROR!

Quote, originally posted by ZubenElGenubi »ROR! Excerrent!

I lived in Japan for 6 years and saw this kind of stuff daily. Some of it is really funny!

Heh, we just got an e-mail from one of the people in China who we work with that says "I am sorry to cause you incontinence." lol!

Quote, originally posted by ColonelPanic »Heh, we just got an e-mail from one of the people in China who we work with that says "I am sorry to cause you incontinence." lol!Thanks for posting that, CP! That was a good laugh. We used to work a lot with a company in Taiwan, and there were some real classics. Also many that I had no clue what they were trying to say!(Of course, my Chinese is non-existant so hats off to them for being able to speak some degree of English. )

Their engrish good so not but you're right, they speak english better than I can speak Chinese!

True story: I recently had to explain to a fellow employee in another office a policy regarding our time recording. Here is their reply (verbatim):Quote, originally posted by fellow employee »Thanks it is being inform just a little confusing to see it in writing were we are logging the info.Thanks for your timeGood thing they thanked me for my time, cuz I must've spent a couple of hours trying to figure out what they said!

One of those companies we deal with in China let us know that their main IT person we worked with was no longer with them... I can't remember the whole of it but it was like "we are informed you that such and such has been demissioned. his replacement is this person. we'd appreciated if you give him big help!"Demissioned, that's such a cool word!

I'm fluent(sp) in every language there is except one. .........I'm not fluent in Greek! And its All Greek to me!! I choose to speak only in english.For this reason I will not offend anyone of a different language by trying to speak it......And on another note..... in the words of Gallagher "...Why should we be serious about our language if its not serious enough to make cense..."

When I was in Korea, the Koreans said that even though they couldn't speak English, they could read it. I always thought that it was odd.

Quote, originally posted by Vibr8tr »When I was in Korea, the Koreans said that even though they couldn't speak English, they could read it. I always thought that it was odd.Generally when someone is learning a new language, they have an easier time understanding it than reading it. It's generally easier to hear a word and recognize its meaning than to try to conjure it up in the midst of speaking.Also, I find it easiest to read other languages. You can go slower than talking pace, and you don't have to deal with accents. Plus, most languages have no inherent separation of words in speech so it's harder to pick out words from a stream of syllables than when they are nicely spaced apart on the written page.

LOL, I have to say that was a very well worded explination. I felt like I was reading something out of a text book. Makes sence though....