Think I need more sleep.
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Engrish
Why does Engrish have such a fascination for us native speakers? Personally I find it a huge source of amusement that in Japan - a nation ostensibly obsessed with learning English - that there's so much "English" visible which is not only wrong, but often hilariously so.
This isn't poking fun at other people's speaking abilities - no doubt I make enough howlers in other languages myself - but at the sheer flood of weird words which wash over you in Japan.
(For a view of the world of linguistic cockups from the other side of the divide, see the Orientalish section)
If you're like me, and have all the style of a beached whale, this is the brand of beer you'll want to be drinking.
(It's not even real beer, but a "cheap" equivalent which goes by the name "happôshu" (発泡酒). Purchased at that high-class purveyor of bosom-shaped pillows to the general public, Don Quijote.)
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What better way to warm yourself on a cold Tokyo day than with Noodle Goo! I did, and I bitterly regret leaving 100 yen + tax at Daiso in the attempt. The darn things weren't even gooey.
From a company which has the temerity to call itself Acecook Co. Ltd.
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Today I needed a new notebook, and what better opportunity could there be to acquire a further example of Engrish prose from the pens of Japan's heartful copywriters? A veritable bargain at just 100 yen + tax from that purveyor of all fine things, Daiso.
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Further evidence of the on-going chronic shortage of English dictionaries amongst the signmakers of Tokyo.
Somewhere on the west side of Shinjuku Station.
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Terrific power!
STORAGE-CASE
PONY CO. LTD.
You are freer than whether to use with what kind of use.
Yes, it may look like a cheap nylon baggy from a 100 yen shop, but it has Terrific power! And what kind of use than whether you are freer than, it is stored!
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JOYFUL IMPRESSION
We produce it for whole human beings
What more can one wish of a little polyester zip baggie?
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