Andy in Tokyo » Engrish http://www.andyintokyo.com/blog Thu, 09 Sep 2010 10:45:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Engrish of the Month http://www.andyintokyo.com/blog/2009/03/30/engrish-of-the-month/ http://www.andyintokyo.com/blog/2009/03/30/engrish-of-the-month/#comments Mon, 30 Mar 2009 12:01:15 +0000 Andy in Tokyo http://www.andyintokyo.com/blog/?p=231
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    • ]]>     For God’s sake man, if you’re going to smoke in the toilet at least try to aim for the bowl:

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    • ]]>     Thursday night saw the arrival of Typhoon No. 9 in Tokyo, and it was a big ‘un: Winds reached speeds of 90 kph, at least two people died, and the city’s transportation network was thrown into chaos.

    Meanwhile, I slept through the entire event, waking up at 8am to look out of the living room window to remark that it ‘looks a bit windy out’. Things seem to be back to normal now, at least in western Tokyo. The emergency services are well prepared for disasters – when you expect earthquakes to flatten everything at least once a century, dealing with typhoons must be more of a sort of training exercise for the Big Event, which will hopefully happen when I’m not here.

    I came across an Engrish of staggering outrageousness today:

    A what-burger?

    Continuing the phallic theme, I discovered this air freshener in an izakaya last week:

    Phallic air freshener

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