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Just a quick note that I will get back to brogging here. It may not be every weekday as before, but I promise not to take 4 month breaks any more. Thank you for you! Steve – Engrish.com

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I have just donated another $1,500 directly to the Japan Red Cross today, based on profits generated from the sale of our Japan Relief Shirt at the store between March 15th and April 6th. It took over a day to calculate, but I was finally able to figure out the profits:  between March 15th and [...]

Figuring out the profit margins for our Japan relief shirt is not easy since I have yet to be billed for the shirt production, but I went ahead an sent an advance of $4,000 directly to the Japan Red Cross Society last Friday. A thank is made at here! For more information about the Japan [...]

Just when everyone including the New York Times thought that China was cleaning up all the Chinglish/Engrish in Shanghai in time for the Shanghai World Expo, I just got this Engrish that was taken at the expo itself. Turns out that the World Expo is actually generating new Engrish, just as I suspected! The Chinese [...]

Check out Uzbekistan Airways’ new marketing slogan: “Successful landings at least 88% of the time!” Found by way of Seattle Weekly.

This photo of a Japanese used PC and computer parts shop has been making the rounds on the internet recently. It is not just a cheap rip-off of Microsoft Windows – the word ‘binbo’ （貧乏）in Japanese means ‘poor’, so the bilingual pun works on a promotional level as well (to sell their ‘ultra-cheap’ computer parts [...]

Harry Potter is so cool he generated some rockin’ Engrish: This photo was found on a major Finnish newspaper site called Ilta-Sanomat (Evening News) from an article entitled “The Boy Who Conquered the World” a couple of years back. The photo was taken in Japan. Thanks to Aino Pokela for the heads up (even though I am two [...]

According to a new recycled article from the BBC, Shanghai wants to spruce up its image and clean up all the Chinglish around town in time for the World Expo Fair. Sounds like Shanghai is taking a cue from Beijing and the Olympics in 2008. Just last year Beijing announced to the world that they [...]