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Remain clam. I am a licensed Asian-American who has spend 14-years lived all over Asia. Please. Just enjoy.

meanwhile, the smoker trying to figure this out, explodes.
Also, wondering how the building asked to begin with… caused rampant brain-exploding over here.
Staff: *sighs while cleaning up brain matter* “Second time today. Someone has got to fix that sign.”
But the building insists the sign that is not change to be unchanged in the no change section.
The building is obviously high from all the smoke.
The correct term, according to all my stoner friends is “Baked”
both are technically correct
LOL….nice one
Yep- got myself an exploded brain right here trying to work that one out. Ouchies!
No trouts or salmons allowed!
Man, now I’m afraid – with a sign this confusing there have to be Auditors around O_O
Hahaha, glee. Terry Pratchett Reference fills me with girlish chuckles
Watch your teehee’s there. <_<
I think I’d rather be shot dead by the armed guards in the PROTECTED AREA than smoked to death by a confused but polite BUILDING.
Perhaps the visitor is a Pole?
Mmmmm…. “smoked visitor” on a bagel with cream cheese and capers…
Sounds tasty to me
-explodes-
yum. fresh alaskan smoked visitor. great for breakfast!
But let’s settle the important question: Can I smoke?
yes, in the smoking corner
you may be smoked, but you can not smoking in.
I see nothing wrong with that sign.
Remember kids: Don’t do drugs!
So, the building asks someone in the smoking section, where there is not supposed to be anything?…
Yipes.
Is fact statement of now actions employing three people tense. Building now ask now former one smoking of location not prohibit for smoking outside, that prohibit of smoking you of location, plus say you of ask using three people tense in now.
Discern now you?
ENGLISH FAIL!!! That is one of the worse sentences I have ever read in my entire life. And that face… that horrible face that looks like he knows something but in fact doesn’t! ARGH!!! *Runs away*
Joke comprehension fail.
Joke Fail. That does not even qualify as a joke, being as horrible as it was. It painful to even read it.
… the who with the what huh? *is smoked*
Wow…this a great example of pure Engrish for once.
The person in charge of this translation has absolutely NO command of the English language…yet it was his or her JOB to translate this sign.
The next step in the evolution of the Smart Home…..
Hahaha
At the end of the day, there is no way I’m going into a building that asks or talks. And I don’t even smoke!
The Building is unavailable for comment
Also, building asks that you eat all foodthings that are to be eaten in the eating area in which you cannot eat.
Thank-You
-member staff.
The building not smoke of area in corner for smoking, please be of disregard in pleasure of sign to ask question of the corner smoke.
Of pleasure, staff of building
ohgod.
*head asplode*
Too funny!
The building told me to stop smoking visitors…To stop visitors from smoking. What’s the matter with smoking jackets anyway? Why can’t building be nice and not stop visitors’ smokings inside… Smoking section for those who like fancy clothes. Why are people smoking sections?
Stupid weed, no more smoking.
This is BretonĀ“s last poem…. pure surrealism!
In summary: “Manos” The Hands of Fate.
yoda
congrats, you just shorted out my brain
sounds like a buddhist koan, lol.
Visitor would have to pretty be smoked building for talking to them in not smoking area.
compared to some of the other signs seen here, this one’s not that bad. at least you can understand what the sign wants you to do (not smoke inside).
What’s wrong with everyone ? This is Japanese Haiku / Tanka (poetry) of the highest order !
the visitor got smoked like a salmon
hahaha “smoked like a solmon”!!!
wow my brain actually hurts
The sign actually does say, “to customers who are smoked”, but that’s not what it means. It’s written very politely, and one way to politely refer to the actions of a social superior is to use the passive form of the verb. Babelfish actually gets that part correct if you feed it the text, which means the sign-maker used a fairly crude translation program.
A literal translation would be: “To respected customers who (honorably) smoke tobacco: the premises have humbly become non-smoking, we request (you do it) outside at the smoking corner”.
-j
I am 99% sure I’ve seen this exact sign. It’s in Hakone in Japan in the queueing area for a cruise boat. I would have got a photo myself but was to busy going “WTF!!!”.
You’re right. That is exactly where I took this photo (I didn’t log in when I submitted it). I was laughing my arse off and trying to smoke at the same time. Odd gaijin.
in Japan building asks you
i love how its also an incomplete statement!
It’s closer to completion than many a statement we see around these parts.