Comments on: No, Thank YOU!

By: trusts

trusts — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:39:54 +0000

i have fisited a place like this before…

By: dukethepcdr

dukethepcdr — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 08:00:34 +0000

It’s so funny when even the signs have such a strong accent you almost can’t understand them. You can’t read the sign out loud without sounding like you just learned a few English phrases the other day.

By: tolong kita

tolong kita — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 14:14:01 +0000

he means those commentators should look first at their own language proficiency before heaping muck on other languages and other peoples. even if I find these posts funny, i know that that’s because the people who made these signs consulted dictionaries too much.
you would also sound funny in javanese if you tried to speak it if you’re not even indonesian. part and parcel of language differences.
nothing to be ashamed of. everything to be amused at especially when you realize you can and will experience it yourself.

By: tolong kita

tolong kita — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 14:08:19 +0000

I’m not Indonesian, although my language is also austronesian. you will find more vowel wobbles in bahasa indonesia or javanese. trust me. i speak their cousin.

By: tolong kita

tolong kita — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 14:06:28 +0000

maybe Keropika means bahasa Inggris.
huff: Keropika means bahasa Inggris.

By: wow

wow — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 10:43:12 +0000

I’m Indonesian myself and I’m really curious about what you mean by ‘how we treat the other one’. Really. I thought being anti-Chinese is waay behind us all.

By: huff

huff — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 08:46:32 +0000

There is standard spelling in Indonesian as there is in English. Duuh, we have dictionaries too. And we don’t spell words just as we pronounce it… There is no confusion between F and P, some people just can’t pronounce F although this is strictly regional..

By: huff

huff — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 08:41:33 +0000

you can’t spell English either…. Or understand english grammar

By: huff

huff — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 08:36:44 +0000

insulting your own country? ckckckck

By: huff

huff — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 08:35:04 +0000

The only errors you’ve ever made was confusing ‘me’ and my’???
You’re such a GENIUS!! Obviously you can judge an Indonesian by whose majority have limited means to learning English.

By: huff

huff — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 08:26:46 +0000

That’s just stupid, Keropika! Why should you be ‘insulted’ by his extra two spoken language? Obviously you’re JEALOUS! Do people in Indonesia get insulted when someone can speak Sundanese or Javanese? Does it ruin national stability? Generate social jealousy? Can you seriously tell me that speaking in mother tongue is insulting?

Seriously?! Only a fool take an offence he/she’s not suppose to take!

By: gan

gan — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 09:02:10 +0000

mangstab gan

By: kapronas

kapronas — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:57:28 +0000

wow..they can’t either spell english or there a really retarded company ! (X)

By: keropika

keropika — Sun, 03 May 2009 19:56:07 +0000

And out of three languages that you mentioned in your comment, sir, “mayoritas orang Indonesia” speaks only the two of them, and you know how we treat the other one.

I am Indonesian myself, sir, and honestly, I am, and I’m sure most Indonesian people are, very insulted by your show-offish comment about the not-so-true language statement.

By: ChzCakeKitteh

ChzCakeKitteh — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 17:10:29 +0000

ok, so he was insulting himself, put down the “hate destroyers”

By: Lawlburger

Lawlburger — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 19:58:16 +0000

Omg u write song lyrics on your bag?

By: Janiporo

Janiporo — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 18:28:14 +0000

It says something about cum and fisting O_o

By: Tomaulmiriadgan

Tomaulmiriadgan — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 05:54:49 +0000

How many foreigners can master english? Hmm? The everyday Joe (or Chang, or Jacque, or Mikhail, etc. etc.) doesn’t give a damn enough to master four different languages, nor do they have the time to!

Good day sir.

I SAID GOOD DAY!

By: Tomaulmiriadgan

Tomaulmiriadgan — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 05:50:04 +0000

phonetically speaking they are. “fuh” and “vuh” sound close, do they not?

By: tha_booger

tha_booger — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 23:32:54 +0000

this is fake…

By: dreeez

dreeez — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 06:32:55 +0000

in english- ‘vizz-it-ing’
indonesian english – ‘fee-seat-ting’
my pops is from yogyakarta, my moms is from san francisco.. thats how they would pronounce it in jogja

By: Justin

Justin — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 01:41:12 +0000

Not to mention “Thangs you” and “for come to fisiting us(.)” No punctuation, and if you ask me, K, and G aren’t that close, and it IS painted! How the @#$% do you mess that up?! The only errors I’ve ever made was confusing “me” and “my” while writing song lyrics on my bag, (good thing it was on the inside) and at least they’re both pronouns(ish). I don’t even know what the hell a “thang” is, nor do I want to!

By: Hamachisn't

Hamachisn't — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 14:20:27 +0000

V is indeed a voiced F, but in Indonesia there is also much confusion between F and P. This might be regional, depending on the local accent.

One other factor that may increase the frequency of spelling errors is that there is no standard spelling in Indonesian, as there is in English. (They didn’t have Noah Webster over there.) They just spell the word as they pronounce it, and that varies with regional accents.

–H

By: Terah

Terah — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 15:56:51 +0000

Ha, I wasn’t trying to be mean, I am Indonesian.

By: NN

NN — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 15:10:05 +0000

For all cranky commentators

Why don’t you try to translate this simple Indonesian sentences into English:

“Mayoritas orang Indonesia belajar 3 bahasa sejak kecil: bahasa ‘ibu’-nya, bahasa Indonesia dan bahasa Inggris.
Tidak heran jikalau kemampuan berbahasa mereka terbagi di antara ketiga bahasa tersebut”

I can speak in 4 different languages: Indonesian, Hokkien, Mandarin and English.
For all those cranky commentators: How many languages that you master?

By: fryman

fryman — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 14:05:59 +0000

LOL

By: ronber

ronber — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 12:41:18 +0000

*giggle*

By: teh cezar

teh cezar — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 09:09:36 +0000

I strongly think they used Google Translate for this.

By: matty

matty — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 07:10:46 +0000

win
p.s. f and v are not quite next to each other at all

By: steve

steve — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 18:18:22 +0000

sandy mac you FAIL!!!11!!!

By: Yo

Yo — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 18:11:29 +0000

That’s normal for Indonesians. For example, they pronounce TV as tee-fee. So, that explained the the “F”. Ah well, probably the whole English sentence was directly translated from Bahasa Indonesia to English.

By: Une polyglotte

Une polyglotte — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:48:43 +0000

Try balsa wood, it’s thinner.

By: So..

So.. — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:48:58 +0000

Mary it isn’t THAT funny…seriously calm down…

if it had said “Thong you for coming to fist us” it would of been better.

ah well, nice try Indonesians.

By: Mkay

Mkay — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:45:57 +0000

lawl.

By: TehBrad

TehBrad — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 13:50:00 +0000

F and V close to each other? Sure… but notice it is painted, probably with a stencil… not a keyboard

By: hlyshtvwls

hlyshtvwls — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 12:22:30 +0000

Yeah, Terah should apologize. That translation is perfect.

By: flounder

flounder — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 03:03:08 +0000

I tried using Word, but the 2×4s kept jamming my laser printer…

By: Mary

Mary — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 15:27:40 +0000

OMG WTF THIS IS HILARIOUS LOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!!!

By: Herry

Herry — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 15:22:56 +0000

Yeah. Me too.
Fery Lofely and I Vind This Vucking Awesome.

By: Wirawan W

Wirawan W — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 15:20:14 +0000

I am Indonesian too. VUCK YOU!

By: memec

memec — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 02:27:50 +0000

Yep. It’s in my lofely country…Piss for yu all…

By: kontol

kontol — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:16:28 +0000

yes it’s indonesian. we confuse f and v all the time. we also enjoy fisting the tourists.

By: jojo

jojo — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:04:37 +0000

lol!!!!!

By: kittehcruncheez

kittehcruncheez — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:11:19 +0000

Hey no evil bashing comments k? And yes that is in Indonesia XD

By: munch

munch — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 01:27:37 +0000

V is the vocative form of F — that is, you “vocalize” while exhaling while pronouncing the letter. Shape your mouth as though you were to speak the ‘F’ sound, but hum instead of plain exhale — that’s a V.

THAT is what is meant by, “they’re close together.” And it is because of that that people have difficulty discerning the two.

By: Jenna

Jenna — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 19:55:58 +0000

Correcting Engrish WIN!

By: sgenius

sgenius — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 19:33:33 +0000

You mean “sentence”.

By: Terah

Terah — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:36:06 +0000

“Terimakasih atas kunjungan anda” means “thank you for your visit”. Indonesians suck at translating to English.

By: Sandy Mac

Sandy Mac — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:08:09 +0000

Even if it was a typo the corrected sign would read: “Thangs you for come to visiting us” If you cannot find any errors in that sentance you have no right to comment in English.

By: mi goreng

mi goreng — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:26:34 +0000

At least they tried I guess..