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Cãlin
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The Universal Language of the World...

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The Universal Language of the World is... Bad English!

Here are some signs and notices written in English that were discovered throughout the world. Have fun:

1. In a Tokyo Hotel:
Is forbidden to steal hotel towels please. If you are not a person to do such thing is please not to read notis.

2. In a Bucharest hotel lobby:
The lift is being fixed for the next day. During that time we regret that you will be unbearable.

3. In a Leipzig elevator:
Do not enter the lift backwards, and only when lit up.

4. In a Belgrade hotel elevator:
To move the cabin, push button for wishing floor. If the cabin should enter more persons, each one should press a number of wishing floor. Driving is then going alphabetically by national order.

5. In a Paris hotel elevator:
Please leave your values at the front desk.

6. Outside a Hong Kong tailor's shop:
Ladies may have a fit upstairs.

7. In a Bangkok dry cleaner's:
Drop your trousers here for best results.

8. Outside a Paris dress shop:
Dresses for street walking.

9. In a Rhodes tailor's shop:
Order your summers suit. Because is big rush we will execute customers is strict rotation.

10. Similarly, from The Soviet Weekly:
There will be a Moskow Exhibition of Arts by 15,000 Soviet Republic painters and sculptors. These were executed over the past two years.

11. A sign posted in Germany's Black Forest:
It is strictly forbidden on our black forest camping site that people of different sex, for instance, men and woman, live together in one tent unless they are married with each other for that purpose.

12. In a Zurich Hotel:
Because of the impropriety of entertaining guests of the opposite sex in the bedroom, it is requested that the lobby be used for this purpose.

13. In an advertisment by a Hong Kong dentist:
Teeth extracted by the latest Methodists.

14. In a Rome laundry:
Ladies, leave your clothes here and spend the afternoon having a good time.

15. In a Czechoslovakia tourist agency:
Take one of our horse-driven city tours - we guarantee no miscarriages.

16. Advertisment for donkey rides in Thailand:
Would you like to ride on your own ass?

17. In a Swiss mountain inn:
Special today - no ice cream.

18. In a Bangkok temple:
it is fobidden to enter a woman even a foreigner is dressed as a man.

19. In a Tokyo bar:
Special cocktails for the laidies with nuts.

20. In a Copenhagen airline ticket office:
We take your bags and send them in all directions.

21. On the door of a Moscow hotel room:
If this is your first visit to the USSR, you are welcome to it.

22. In a Norwegian cocktail lounge:
Ladies are requested not to have children in the bar.

23. In a Budapest zoo:
Please do not feed the animals. If you have any suitable food, give it to the guard on duty.

24. In the office of a Roman doctor:
Specialist in women and other diseases. :loljump: :loljump: :loljump:

25. In an Acapulco Hotel:
The manager has personally passed all the water served here.

26. From an information booklet in Japan about using a hotel air conditioner:
Coolers and Heaters: If you want just condition of warm in your room, please control yourself.

27. In an Athens hotel:
Visitors are expected to complain at the office between the hours 9 and 11 a.m. daily.

28. In a Japanese hotel:
You are invited to take advantage of the chambermaid.

29. On the menu of a Swiss restaurant:
Our wines leve you nothing to hope for.

30. In an Austrian hotel catering for skiers:
Not to preambulate the corridors in the ours of repose in the boots of ascension.

etc.

- From an Air France bulletin, dated December 1, 1989.
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LOL
Et dire que les traducteurs ont un mal fou à trouver du boulot...
Yo tengo tantos hermanos
Que no los puedo contar
Y una hermana muy hermosa
Que se llama libertad
(Mercedes Sosa)
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hahaha very funny...let me add one bad english and i even don't know what does it mean:
i find it on a snack label that was imported from China:

????Tour fine article contain eat make drink even see also????

:lol:
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