Peanus butter

[Kinoko]

Found these two notebooks in a bargain store today. Ah, crazy Japan ^_-

http://kabocha.futariba.com/photos/misc/extra3%20004.jpg

Gave me a laugh.

[esper]

ah, sweet engrish.


www.engrish.com

[Nikolas]

I think that this thread is getting funnier by the minute (or every 3 minutes?)

Too bad I don't have something to add, but thanks Kinoko and esper.

I'm laughing my head off here, and it's only morning.

I'll wait a little longer, then I'll drink 3-4 pints of beer and then I'll fall asleep on my double bed (alone). And in the meantime I'll watch friends on the DVD.

How more off-topic could this post be?

[Minimi]

euhm, this might sound silly, but I don't get the joke?! please explain! pffft...

[Nikolas]

Really check espers link! See some photgraphs (I propose computers...) Then you'll definately understand

[esper]

I propose clothing.... Oh, the clothing people wear in Japan....

"War is Homo..."




EDIT: Oh, boy, I just noticed this on my work computer. I'm sorry, but I have to tell you what the morons decided to put on the main server here at work... Note that this is the computer that has to be connected to the internet in order to do my job

Do Not Download the Internet on This Computer....

WTF? That is one bigass hard drive.

[Vince Twelve]

Heh heh.  This is exactly how they pronounce it here too.  It's very funny.  I still double-take everytime someone says "peanus butter."

And esper, regarding the terrible but hilarious Engrish on clothing:  My sister who is in High School flew over here to visit me and went nuts buying tons of shirts with ridiculous English.  I always have a good laugh, especially when English teachers at my school wear stuff like this.

[esper]

Okay, and what is it with anime music, huh? Let me present for your consideration "Freckles," the themesong to Rurouni Kenshin...

I brush against the freckles that I hated so, But life goes on and I heave a little sigh for you.
It's heavy, the love that I would share with you, Then it dissolved like it was just a sugar cube.
Now the little pain sittin' in my heart, Has shrunk in a bit, but it really does hurt me now.
Those silly horoscopes I guess I can't trust them after all.

If we could get further away, I wonder what it would be like...
ya-a-ay!
I'd be so happy,Inside my heart!

All the memories, I have are beautiful in my mind, But they don't feed the hunger deep inside my soul.
And tonight I thought, I'd be just sitting in my sorrow, And now I must wonder wonder why.
What did it really mean to you? I just can't see it anymore!
I just can't see it anymore! Oh-ahohoh-o-o-oooh!

Tell me, just what does that have to do with a story about a man who once was a bloodthirsty killer and now roams the countryside seeking penitence for his evil by doing good deeds with a reverse-bladed sword? And the Japanese version probably contains about 12% of those actual words.

...and also, why is it that every anime song has one line in English???

"The real folk blues!"Ã,  Ã, 

[Shane 'ProgZmax' Stevens]

Silly Esper, didn't you know anime songs are translated to Engrish with Babelfish?

[SpacePirateCaine]

Ah, the wacky engrish of Japan - I've encountered no small number of occurrances of Engrish and its like in the years I've been here. I also just so happen to have a few on file. So, since this is the thread for it, I think I'll share.

Exhibit 1: Salt & Beef Potato Chips.


I know the english isn't exactly incorrect, being a valid potato chip flavor, but I still wanted to pimp out the marvelous Yamayoshi brand "And Beef" potato chip series. Other favorites include Curry & Beef, Mayonnaise & Beef, and my personal favorite Wasa-Beef (spicy).

Exhibit 2: 'Alcoholic shirt'



It's been a while since I had pretty, long blue hair, but take a look at that sweater. The front and back seem not to really agree with one another. I fall into the 'back' category, but I do love my alcoholic shirt. It's not pictured, but on the sleeve is printed: SAME: Success or Failure, it's all the same to me
...Yup.

Exhibit 3: Toothpick


One could argue, of course, that this is one of those 'cover your ass' situations, where they want people to be sure they know that if they poked a sharp wooden object, the mini-stake generally wins, but still... is it really necessary?

That's all I have for now. If this thread's still going Thursday night, I'll take a picture of the side of the local casino. It's pretty damned baffling.

[Shane 'ProgZmax' Stevens]

Space Pirate Legolas, is that you? o_o

[edmundito]

Lol. At everything from the engrish to the Legolas comment.

[Vince Twelve]

I'm not much of a shutter-bug.  I always forget to whip out my camera when I come across funny Engrish, but here's the bar that my co-workers and I went to after a conference in Kobe.



in case you can't make it out (it was dark), it says "Neo Japanese Fooding Bar."

MMMMmmmmmm.

[edit because I just remembered it was Kobe, not Kyoto... as if anyone cares or will notice this...]

[Kinoko]

I'm maybe a complete idiot, but what's the joke with salt and beef?

[TheYak]

I've got to find my warranty card for a Flash Reader.  It's got a lifetime guarantee and reads something like: "This is for the being good until the day you die."

[SpacePirateCaine]

The way I see it, 'beef' flavor is an odd thing to put on a potato chip. Maybe it's just my prissy elven heritage; granted 'meat and potatos' is nothing new, but am I the only one who finds 'meat' an odd potato chip flavor? Especially when added seemingly arbitrarily just to round out your flavors...

[Kweepa]

Perhaps this will entertain you then:

Oh those crazy British. What will they eat next?

[Grundislav]

Ha. I took a Linguistics class once, and one of the TAs was Korean (go figure), and her favorite sample sentence was "Elephants don't like peanuts," said of course, "Elephants don't like peanus."Ã, 

It was always heartbreaking to see her stand there and look confused when everyone giggled.

[Kinoko]

You guys have never heard of beef flavour?? Wow. It used to be one of the classic flavours, like smokey bacon. I guess you never got that in America...

[Paper Carnival]

actually, prawn and barbeque are my two favourite chip flavours..  don't understand how those chips are Engrish

I don't remember much Engrish here and those I do are not funny enough:
- A fast food place says "HAMBOURKERS" with big letters
- A t-shirt says "Why I can't wear shorts?"
- Some rules I saw in a swimming pool are gramatically incorrect and tragically misspelt

Also, my English teacher for this year (one of the most annoying people ever), pronounces some English words totally wrong and expects us to pronounce them the same way.