Engrish: The Most Elegant Language in the World

[Rangelife in Japan: third in a series.]

The Japanese don't just love blacks, they love English. They love it so much, they spray it randomly all over everything. This wonderful phenomenon has developed into a rich and subtle dialect known as "Engrish." (See Engrish.com for an indispensible documentation.)

Here are some more contributions to the compilation of the neo-language. As always, click on a pic to make it big.

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In case of people at Barmitzvah are dancing, Kool & the Gang are played.

Yes, it's a bar called "Crap's." The one owned by Mr. Crap.

Finally, the specimen below was so offensive, I had to buy it.



Detail below. Click on it to enjoy its awesomeness.

Comments

[Pablo Escobar]

Oh man. My cortex is crapping from reading these. Beautiful never happy.

[Podgers]

Seamus, we have our own version of this here in the states. I read an article (now cannot remember where) where a reporter interviewed a ton of hipster kids with tatoos of Chinese characters. He or she asked the individual what they thought the tatoo said, took a picture of it to someone literate in Chinese, had them translated, and then told them what their tatoos really said. Needless to say, a lot of the translations came out very similarly to those above.

[seamus]

Podgers, true true. I never understand why people get tattoos in characters they can't decipher. It's not like the tattoo artist knows Chinese. So when you die, your funeral director has to try to cover up "Windmill schoolbus fry" on your bicep.

I heard that as a show of commitment to Kabbalah, Britney Spears had a hebrew letter tattooed on the back of her neck... backwards.

[denisdekat]

OMG, you must be having so much fun. I was there a couple years ago and bought me a lot of great t shirts with broken engrish...

Only one I got left is of astro boy...

[cedichou]

I went to UCLA! It's such a sleazy joint, they even hand out pieces of paper signed by Arnold Schwarzenegger.

[Desi]

Way cool. I see a big business here. Randomly engrish-izing normal sentences to sound cool. Kind of Yoda-speak.

Your behind is belong to us, infants!

[Odaiba]

Thanks for these engrish pics, VERY FUNNY!