Franken-Engrish's Monster


 
More uses of Japanese Engrish, as found on :
(Again .. no typos here .. what you see is what they wrote.)

A notebook:
Confernce: When I changed concept, I could see genuine articles.
A reliable brand selected by those with good taste.

A notebook:
Notebook: This notebook is excellent quality
and royal to learn. Put pen to this paper.

A sign:
Please do not stand here and sell things and we will call the police.

A sign:
No get over a forward fence please.

On a pair of shorts:
Where did you come from? Let's enjoy your life.

On a can of coffee:
There's a gallon of deliciousness in every drop.
Reach for the taste of good taste, reach for DyDo.

On a vending machine:
Every satisfying sip a flavour experience, delicious
refreshment is a DyDo tradition. Relax and enjoy this thirst quenching
beverages at their best. DyDo is your ticket to drink paradise.

On a "Print Club" (sticker photo) machine:
A man of ideas can make the best use of
PRINT CLUB in various ways.

On a pack of facial tissues:
Humming Tissues always propose more sanitary life for you.

On a change machine with a curved front:
Wavy front panel creates a lively motion.
I wish you good luck and pleasant time.

On a package of butter cookies:
This article is made from choice materials
and packaged taking care of hygenic condition.

On a notepad:
Report Pad: If there is changing beauty,
there is constant beauty.
Enjoy lasting pleasure and satisfaction
in using this report pad made of the best quality paper.

On a hankerchief:
I grow parent bird some day. I am still green.

On a shopping bag:
Cuteness Puppy. A good day is expected to bigin.
My favourite way of sleeping, charming puppy.

On a bag of corn puffs:
It's best suitable as a simple and convenient
refreshment food for an  athletic meeting.

On a can of "Post Water":
Rapidly moistens your body and gently softens your soul.
Post Water is Life Water for us all.

On a box of cookies:
Tohato raisin cookie is baked in a way handmade like.
The cookie gives flavors of it's ingredients.
Let's enjoy the cookie with it's smooth texture and
rich flavor for family tea and children's snack.

On a box of cookies:
Beautiful things are beyond time.
Women's history never cease to yearn for beauty.

Yet another box of cookies:
Confidence of creating deliciousness.
This tastiness can not be carried even by both hands.

On an "Exciting Ball":
Squeeze it .. whenever stress has got you down,
Squeeze it .. for good health day by day ..
Squeeze I .. you will be locky man of all the world!

On a backpack:
Little wonders are gone in a flash, like squirrels.
Put your found treasures in your rucksack.

On a backpack:
I like to watch the seasons change.
It's a precious feeling, like having a rucksack on your back.

On an Apple Mint Gum display:
For boys & girls, Be always happy with mint taste
When you chew just a little piece, you must say, "It's so cold out here."

On the wrapper of Dipper Dan's ice cream:
Making you feel Nice and Happy by tasting Dipper Dan's flavor.
That's our happiness. Making Heartfull Cummunication
between you and Dipper Dan. That's our wishness

On a cigarette machine:
This is the White Corner.
It's the bright, fantastic and sophisticated urban life.
Let's make the brilliant scene. Get's together with us.

On a bread store window:
Kobeya was established in 1918. We wish all the time to be able to provide
you fresh bread and to propose you a joy of eating life with bread.
Especially, we want to be a host at dinner of your kitchen. We are waiting for you
with various kinds of bread, cakes and sandwiches.

On a supermarket bag:
We are determined to render with thoughtfulness and consideration
thorough services to our customers and to offer a fresh and
highly refined culture for living to people.


 
 
Test answers of Japanese students taking private school exams .. in English:

When you breath, you inspire. When you do not breath, you expire.

H2O is hot water, and CO2 is cold water

To collect fumes of sulphur, hold a deacon over a flame in a test tube

When you smell an odorless gas, it is probably carbon monoxide

Nitrogen is not found in Ireland, because it is not found in a free state

Water is composed of two gins, Oxygin and Hydrogin.
Oxygin is pure gin. Hydrogin is gin and water.

Three kinds of blood vessels are arteries, vanes and caterpillars.

Blood flows down one leg and up the other.

Respiration is composed of two acts, first inspiration,
and then expectoration.

The moon is a planet just like the earth, only it is even deader.

Artifical insemination is when the farmer does it to the
cow instead of the bull.

Dew is formed on leaves when the sun shines down on
them and makes them perspire.

A super-saturated solution is one that holds more than it can hold.

Mushrooms always grow in damp places and so they look like umbrellas.

The body consists of three parts - the brainium,
the borax and the abominable cavity.
The brainium contains the brain, the borax
contains the heart and lungs, and the abominable
cavity contains the bowels, of which there are
five - a, e, i, o, and u.

The pistol of a flower is its only protections agenst insects.

The alimentary canal is located in the northern part of Indiana.

The skeleton is what is left after the insides have been
taken out and the outsides have ben taken off. The purpose
of the skeleton is something to hitch meat to.

A permanent set of teeth consists of eight canines,
eight cuspids, two molars, and eight cuspidors.

The tides are a fight between the Earth and moon. All water tends
towards the moon, because there is no water in the moon, and nature
abhors a vacuum. I forget where the sun joins in this fight.

A fossil is an extinct animal. The older it is, the more extinct it is.

Many women belive that an alcoholic binge will have no ill effects
on the unborn fetus, but that is a large misconception.

Equator: A managerie lion running around the Earth through Africa.

Germinate: To become a naturalized German.

Liter: A nest of young puppies.

Magnet: Something you find crawling all over a dead cat.

Momentum: What you give a person when they are going away.

Planet: A body of Earth surrounded by sky.

Rhubarb: A kind of celery gone bloodshot.

Vacuum: A large, empty space where the pope lives.

Before giving a blood transfusion, find out if the blood
is affirmative or negative.

To remove dust from the eye, pull the eye down over the nose.

For a nosebleed, put the nose much lower then the body
until the heart stops.


 
 
Questions (in Engrish) on a Japanese medical form:

       Are you haunted by horribles?

       Do you ever run after your nose?

       Does your nose choke?

       Does your head or face or shoulder ever limp?

       Has any part of your body suddenly grown uncontrollable?

       Do you have heart thrills?

       Do you have hot fit?

       Do you have shiver of fingers?

       Do you feel as if there were two when there is only one?

       Are more than half your teeth off?

       Do you ever have a drilling pain in your stomach?

       Do your sholders or scruff of the neck grow stiff?

       Do you always have trouble with your body?

       Have you been influenced by Atom bomb?

       Did your doctor tell you you have abnormal body?

       Have you been put into a mental hospital?

       Do you readily become orderless unless you are strained?
 
 

Phoentic pronunciations of Japanese phrases (can you hear the English?):

    bairin (gyaru) : billingual girl (usually terento)

    hansuto : hunger strike

    roricon : Lolita complex

    tereka : telephone card

    sekuhara : sexual harassment

    yan egu : young executive

    aidoru : teen idol

    konpanion : female guide for espos

    tarento : TV personality/celebrity

    orendi dorama : trendy drama

    enerugisshu : energetic

    hisuteri : hysteria

    ronge : long ke (hair) (men only)

    gattsu po'zu : guts pose (fist triumphantly raised above head)

    goru in : goal in (used also when the race is won)

    no tatehi : no touch (ace serve in tennis ; also, off-limits topic)

    sutandopure' : (grand) stand play

    gadoman : security guard

    hurusu meta : health meter

    pepa tesuto : written test

    sukinshippu : physical contact

    rippu (kurimu) : (lip) chap stick

    don mai : don't mind (don't worry)

    uetto : wet, sentimental (as opposed to dorai/dry)

    panchi : punch perm (afro perm)

    derukaji : model casual (fashion of supermodels)

    sukebo : skateboard

    yanmama : yankee mama (ex-delinquent woman, with kids)

    wanren : "one-length" hairstyle


 

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