See someone did sented this to I. I think they is trys to tell (maybe sell) me somewhat. But I don't know how. So I say no thing. It are the safer weigh...
Cocktail lounge in Norway: "Ladies are requested not to have children in the bar."
At a Budapest zoo: "Please do not feed the animals. Also: If you have any suitable food, give it to the guard on duty."
Doctor's surgery, Rome: "Specialist in women and other diseases."
Hotel, Acapulco: "The manager has personally passed all the water served here."
Information booklet about using a hotel air-conditioner, Japan: "Cooles and heates. If you want condition of warm air in your room, please control yourself."
Car rental brochure, Tokyo: "When passenger of foot heave in sight, tootle the horn. Trumpet him melodiously at first, but if he still obstacles your passage then tootle him with vigour."
Sign in men's restroom in Japan: "To stop leak turn cock to the right."
In a Nairobi restaurant: "Customers who find out waitresses rude ought to see the manager."
On the grounds of a private school: "No trespassing without permission."
On an Athi River highway in Kenya: "Take notice: When this sign is under water, this road is impassable."
On a poster at Kencom, Kenya: "Are you an adult that cannot read. If so, we can help."
In a city restaurant: "Open seven days a week and weekends too."
One of the Mathare buildings, Kenya: "Mental health prevention centre."
A sign seen on an automatic restroom hand dryer: "Do not activate with wet hands."
In a Pumwani, Kenya, maternity ward: "No children allowed."
In a cemetery: "Persons are prohibited from picking flowers from any but their own graves."
Sign in Japanese public bath: "Foreign guests are requested not to pull cock in tub."
Tokyo hotel's rules and regulations: "Guests are requested not to smoke or do other disgusting behaviours in bed."
On the menu of a Swiss restaurant: "Our wines leave you nothing to hope for."
In a Tokyo bar: "Special cocktails for the ladies with nuts."
In a Bangkok temple: "It is forbidden to enter a woman even if a foreigner is dressed as a man."
Hotel room notice, Chiang-Mai, Thailand: "Please do not bring solicitors into your word."
Hotel brochure, Italy: "This hotel is renowned for its peace and solitude. In fact, crowds from all over the world flock here to enjoy its solitude."
Hotel lobby, Bucharest: "The lift is being fixed for the next day. During that time we regret that you will be unbearable."
Hotel lift, Paris: "Please leave your values at the front desk."
Hotel, Yugoslavia: "The flattening of underwear with pleasure is the job of the chambermaid."
Hotel, Japan: "You are invited to take advantage of the chambermaid."
Ba-kaaak! You humans think you're confused - you have no idea how us Novapulsians feel about this language business. Thank the Corncob for the technoauto-translator!
(Images used in this post courtesy of the Engrish site - yes, there really is one!)
19 comments:
some of them simply hilarious
Brilliant. I saw two signs side by side recently. the first said "This shop is run by volunteers" right next to it was another sign that read: "We are looking for new volunteers"
Saying: we are 'always' looking...would have helped.
Cracks me up everytime, Rambler - glad you enjoyed them :-)
Hmm, Jon sounds like that first lot of volunteers were either dodgy or got eaten by vampiric shopkeepers...
I love reading silliness like that, brilliant!
Thanks as she are spoked, for hirarious post.
They are too, too funny. Here in Pennsylvania, USA we have signs on the highways that simply say, "Heavy Truck Traffic". I'm always expecting to pass a 1,000,000 ton truck cracking the tarmac as well as the substrata of the earth under it.
hey! i'm going to cali this weekend and won't be back until september...here is the website i was talking about where i made extra summer cash. Later! the website is here
Funny , thanx
I saw a speed-limit sign in Sweden indicating that during summer 20 miles/hour was the maximum, but the rest of year ... (on a small road actually only allowing 20 miles/hour)...
I'm all for huge doses of silliness, PJ - makes the world a brighter place :-)
Glad you are enjoyed it, Bonnie :-)
I think that's a pretty reasonable expectation, Brian given the sign! I'd be a pretty nervous driver around a sign like that!
There are some signs out there, Axel that really make you scratch your head and wonder ;-)
We loved this at Jon M HQ. My son has printed them all off. He really enjoys stuff like this! Thanks.
It's a pleasure Jon - it was too good not to share anyway :-)
The bane of babel fish if you ask me. There were some classic mistranslations in Bali last year, but one of the classics came out my own mouth when I translated a Chinese menu for a friend and told her that Magret laque was Varnished duck!
And erm, just how did your Varnished Duck taste, V - of liqueur or lacquer...?
I don't know I'm vegetarian! And the worst thing is that now that I've said it again (or typed it) I can't think what the word is in English again.
Atyllah has just added you to her list of most favourite people, V :-) I'm beginning to think it isn't English as she is spoked, but English as we are all spooked!
LOL....
Those are too funny. I nearly fell out of my desk chair, when I read, "It is forbidden to enter a woman even if a foreigner is dressed as a man".
I read a sign in Georgia recently that said, "Toilet out of order, please use the floor". Ewwwwww :-)
They're priceless, aren't they, Jefferso - of course the flip side is, I wonder what kind of absurdities we come up with when we try to speak a foreign language! ;-)
Most definitely a no-drink zone.
Crawling... back... up... off... floor...
Nope... laughing too hard... can't do it.
Scarlett & V.
Oops, sorry about that coffee all over the keyboard, Scarlett ;-)
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