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Bad English Tokyo 2003 |
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Strolling around in Tokyo (or in Japan in general) you will come across a lot of slogans in peculiar or even bad English. "Humanity are fighting against tired. Charley supports you." on a bath soap package. What does it mean? It's certainly hopeless to blame the educational system or a lack of interest in a foreign language in general for these faults. We'd rather have to acknowledge both the distance and the fascination of the authors with a dominant world language. What we find here is the joyful mis-usage of denotation in favour of connotation. It's the intention which counts, spray a feeling of happiness, make a positive statement, just say Hello I'm Here to everybody. |
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Japanese English referred as Engrish. Here Or Flickr Engrish |
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