Awkward English

[StupidJourney 0]

I am an English as a second language teacher, so maybe that's why I find awkard english so endearing...

But I thought it would be interesting to see what types of awkward English your foreign fiance tells you! (And a good distraction from playing the waiting game).

My two personal favorites are:

"Every day my love for you augments"

and

"I can't support being without you"

Of course there are plenty of others (some may not be appropriate to share! )

What kinds of things have you been told?

[Leasel7 0]

This is a fun topic! My husband grew up with English as his 3rd language. He actually speaks English pretty well, especially having gotten his college education in the US, but there are funny phrases that come out of his mouth now and then, just the way colloquial English is spoken in his country. One example is the use of "laters" instead of "later".

Can't think of anything else at the moment, but I wanted to recommend this site to you:

http://www.engrish.com/

My sister and I visited a friend living in Japan last year, and one of the pure delights of being there was finding all the creative use of English on T-shirts, signs, and many other products, affectionately called "Engrish". It seems that it is desirable to have English on products as part of the design for a modern, cool look, but often the meaning or content is not important, so not a whole lot of checking for correct spelling or grammar. The results can be hilarious!

(No offense to any Japanese posters, while there I met many Japanese people who speak beautiful English, it's just that some of the advertising and product design people have no desire to get their English perfect, and rhe results can be soo funny!)

[StupidJourney 0]

This is a fun topic! My husband grew up with English as his 3rd language. He actually speaks English pretty well, especially having gotten his college education in the US, but there are funny phrases that come out of his mouth now and then, just the way colloquial English is spoken in his country. One example is the use of "laters" instead of "later".

Can't think of anything else at the moment, but I wanted to recommend this site to you:

http://www.engrish.com/

My sister and I visited a friend living in Japan last year, and one of the pure delights of being there was finding all the creative use of English on T-shirts, signs, and many other products, affectionately called "Engrish". It seems that it is desirable to have English on products as part of the design for a modern, cool look, but often the meaning or content is not important, so not a whole lot of checking for correct spelling or grammar. The results can be hilarious!

(No offense to any Japanese posters, while there I met many Japanese people who speak beautiful English, it's just that some of the advertising and product design people have no desire to get their English perfect, and rhe results can be soo funny!)

I know exactly what you're talking about in regards to "creative" English on products. My personal favorite was a children's school bag, with a cute little cartoon teddy bear, and the words "rich b@*ch" printed under it!!

[Mirorgate 0]

This is a fun topic! My husband grew up with English as his 3rd language. He actually speaks English pretty well, especially having gotten his college education in the US, but there are funny phrases that come out of his mouth now and then, just the way colloquial English is spoken in his country. One example is the use of "laters" instead of "later".

Can't think of anything else at the moment, but I wanted to recommend this site to you:

http://www.engrish.com/

My sister and I visited a friend living in Japan last year, and one of the pure delights of being there was finding all the creative use of English on T-shirts, signs, and many other products, affectionately called "Engrish". It seems that it is desirable to have English on products as part of the design for a modern, cool look, but often the meaning or content is not important, so not a whole lot of checking for correct spelling or grammar. The results can be hilarious!

(No offense to any Japanese posters, while there I met many Japanese people who speak beautiful English, it's just that some of the advertising and product design people have no desire to get their English perfect, and rhe results can be soo funny!)

http://allyourbase.planettribes.gamespy.co...deo1_view.shtml

hahahahahaaa

[Laveau 67]

"You better don't!"

[Melo 1]

I worked as a voice and accent trainer for one of the larger call-centres in India... some of the calls I monitored were hysterical... so much so I kept the reports... here are some of the things said by those handling tech calls for microsoft uk...

I cannot see you hearing me

Please go ahead and answer me back

Customer: Are you in England?

Response: No but this call is

I have had a hard time keeping a straight face to tell you the truth.

[Ban Hammer 12,882]

I worked as a voice and accent trainer for one of the larger call-centres in India... some of the calls I monitored were hysterical... so much so I kept the reports... here are some of the things said by those handling tech calls for microsoft uk...

I cannot see you hearing me

Please go ahead and answer me back

Customer: Are you in England?

Response: No but this call is

I have had a hard time keeping a straight face to tell you the truth.

good ones melo

[StupidJourney 0]

This is a fun topic! My husband grew up with English as his 3rd language. He actually speaks English pretty well, especially having gotten his college education in the US, but there are funny phrases that come out of his mouth now and then, just the way colloquial English is spoken in his country. One example is the use of "laters" instead of "later".

Can't think of anything else at the moment, but I wanted to recommend this site to you:

http://www.engrish.com/

My sister and I visited a friend living in Japan last year, and one of the pure delights of being there was finding all the creative use of English on T-shirts, signs, and many other products, affectionately called "Engrish". It seems that it is desirable to have English on products as part of the design for a modern, cool look, but often the meaning or content is not important, so not a whole lot of checking for correct spelling or grammar. The results can be hilarious!

(No offense to any Japanese posters, while there I met many Japanese people who speak beautiful English, it's just that some of the advertising and product design people have no desire to get their English perfect, and rhe results can be soo funny!)

I'm not really sure what that video means, but it's actually kind of creepy!

http://allyourbase.planettribes.gamespy.co...deo1_view.shtml

hahahahahaaa

[RaspberrySwirl 20]

All your base are belong to us...

Where to start

Here's the wikipedia entry for it:

"All your base are belong to us" (often referred to as "All Your Base" or abbreviated AYBABTU, AYBAB2U, or simply AYB) is an Engrish phrase that sparked an Internet phenomenon in 2001 and 2002. The text is taken from the opening cut scene of the English version of the 1989 Japanese video game Zero Wing by Toaplan. While the translation was generally poor, this phrase stood out as particularly humorous. From mid-to-late 2000 many images were digitally altered so that the phrase was added in, either obviously or discreetly, led by the Something Awful Forums[1]. Some of these images were compiled with those created and posted to a forum thread on TribalWar.com by their members; one of whom, known only as "Bad_CRC", created the AYBABTU Flash animation that was widely downloaded and later featured on various online and televised news outlets.

It's just taken a life of its own really. It's kind of old by now though. You'll still see it once in a while on gamer forums or something.

The phrase is a line from the game's introductory cut scene, which is subtitled and poorly translated (see Engrish). It made its first appearance on the Internet in 1998. During mid- to late 1998, the phrase began to appear on many Internet forums. In 2000, Jared and Canadian Gabber group The Laziest Men on Mars created the song “Invasion of the Gabber Robots” using samples from the game theme by Tatsuya Uemura (including a robotic voice synthesis rendition of the complete cut-scene dialogue, which by some accounts caused MP3.com to temporarily remove the track from their servers for perceived copyright violation).

By the second half of February 2001 a huge number of altered pictures, GIF animations, and Macromedia Flash animations (in addition to photos of actual sightings) swept over the Internet, the first being the twelfth episode of “Eskimo Bob,” in what creators Tomas and Alan Guinan later declared their worst episode to date, going so far as to post warnings advising people not to watch it. It has been used as a caption for almost any photograph since the heavily overloaded word “base” (along with homonyms such as bass and compounds like base pair) seemed to make the phrase mean almost anything. Numerous persons and groups also replaced the word base with other topics (e.g. “all your data are belong to us,” “all your vote are belong to us,” “all your oil are belong to U.S.”), generally suggesting someone's aggressive dominance—either real or imagined—in a particular field.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_your_base_are_belong_to_us

[GaryC 7]

I spent 5 months in China. Some of the signs I saw really cracked me up!! Here is one!

[Fuzzness 2]

I remember All Your Base.... classic stuff

[dalegg 143]

My wife likes to say

"Honey, I'm so headache" and "oh my Godness", although the latter has faded in the past year.

[StupidJourney 0]

I spent 5 months in China. Some of the signs I saw really cracked me up!! Here is one!

why is there a question mark that's not in the translation?? hahaa

[patricks 0]

.....You look me very happy......

[Scott & Lai 12]

One of my favorites