35 Times People Came Across Such Hilarious English Language Mishaps, They Had To Take A Pic
Engrish is a term used to describe funny and often unintentional misuse of the English language, and there's a website of the same name that has been running since 1999, sharing examples of such instances.
Whether we're talking about restaurant signs, Amazon ads, or product labels, turns out, there's no shortage of texts that were introduced to the public without running them through a proofreader first.
But before we continue, it's important to note that Engrish is not trying to mock or criticize non-native speakers but rather to appreciate the humor that unexpectedly arises in everyday life. So, without further ado, let's do just that!
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Thank Goodness I’m Stuck In The Past
What it says in Japanese is that it's dangerous to go further than this point.
Not Much To Do Here
English belongs to the Germanic languages branch of the Indo-European language family.
It is one of the most popular languages in the world, with approximately 1.5 billion speakers, the mother tongue of more than 350 million people, and the most widely taught foreign language.
Don’t Believe It? C4 Yourself
I’m Betting It’s Not A Bible
Sometimes We Wish You Were Someone Else
To someone who is well versed in the language, the mistakes in these pictures might seem absurd, but despite its prevalence, English is quite hard to learn.
"The most difficulty arises when people ... don’t have the advantage of sharing many borrowed words or grammatical patterns," "Sean Sutherland, senior lecturer in English language and linguistics at the University of Westminster, United Kingom, said.
"This will include speakers of Arabic, Urdu, and Bengali"
You Can’t Handle It
So... This Isn't Sushi
Make It Look Like An Accident
It Kills 666% Of The Germs!
In his own experience, the most common complaint learners make about English is that the spelling of words often has little or nothing to do with their pronunciation.
"It’s easy enough to teach someone how to write the letter 'a', for example, but then they must be taught that its pronunciation changes in words like hat, hate, and father. In oak, it isn’t pronounced at all," the linguist explained.
"Compare this to the simplicity of Spanish, a language in which an 'a' and other vowels rarely change pronunciation from word to word."
No Ham, No Fourl
Damn Kids
I Feel I Can Trust Light Gary
Both Garys seem very serious, irrespective of their hat colours!
Resist. It Is Not Sorry
Furthermore, English keeps adopting new words from other languages (350, to be exact, according to David Crystal's book 'English as a Global Language').
With so many sources behind its evolution, English is malleable, or as Robert Burchfield, calls it in 'The English Language', "a fleet of juggernaut trucks that goes on regardless."
No form of linguistic engineering and no amount of linguistic legislation will prevent the myriads of change that lie ahead, he said, and people whose texts ended up on 'Engrish' would probably agree.
Swearing At The Water Does Help
Employee Complaints Are Down
Now I Can’t Seem To Think Of Anything Else
Waves Begin At 9 Am
Good news, I hate when they have to close an entire ocean for renovation.
Which Came First... The Driver Or The Fee?
It’s A Long Story
Show Me Someone Who Can
Keep Baking, Kids
Now I Am [furious]
Because A Whole Child Would Be Insane
Careful Injuries Are No Accident
Spanked Tender
If You’re Alive, Thank A Sign
Speaking as someone who understands Chinese, it actually says "be careful".
You Won’t Like The Paper, Either
And Yet We Keep Selling Them
I Swear There’s A Towel
This Will Go Well With My Naivety Scene
Batman Will Be Sad That He Went Legit
The pure existence of penguins makes every day nicer, even without drugs 🥰🐧
Then Open The Door To Turn The Knob
Shart Will Do In A Pinch
Shít. Shít shít shít. BP, get your fúcking censoring straight, stop censoring the punchlines of your own fúcking jokes. /edit: lol, some special snowflake reported this comment and got my account banned from commenting. ABC the Fourth, here we come.
Your Moist Lies Won’t Work Here
He’s A 9, But A 10 With Soup
I have such respect for anyone who tries to communicate in another language. Most people I know would mock these (they warm my heart) but could they write down any word in Japanese? Or Korean? Or French even? Bravo for the genuine humour and good efforts of all of these
Many of the Japanese instances are meant for the Japanese and not English speakers. So, they don't got through much, if any, editing. They're a sort of "decoration". English in Japanese songs? Same.
Load More Replies...One of the best I’ve heard was an ISP using woody the woodpecker as a mascot. Their slogan was “touch Woody, the Internet p****r.”
I have such respect for anyone who tries to communicate in another language. Most people I know would mock these (they warm my heart) but could they write down any word in Japanese? Or Korean? Or French even? Bravo for the genuine humour and good efforts of all of these
Many of the Japanese instances are meant for the Japanese and not English speakers. So, they don't got through much, if any, editing. They're a sort of "decoration". English in Japanese songs? Same.
Load More Replies...One of the best I’ve heard was an ISP using woody the woodpecker as a mascot. Their slogan was “touch Woody, the Internet p****r.”