Engrish Brog
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I just received this photo of a hilarious entry in an English textbook from South Korea about Shaquille O’Neal. I wonder if Shaq ever approved this?

Shaquille O’Neal was born in 1972. His father was a soldier. So Shaquille moved house a lot. He was always a new kid in a new place. Shaquille’s new friends [...]

This image was just Dugg up over 2,500 times yesterday - it is a pretty funny cover of a “mook” (crossover between a magazine and a book) about police in the US:

I did a bit of research on the ‘mook’ - the image was lifted from a Japanese blog entry from August 2008 that did research on [...]

Here is another example of an Engrish photo that keeps reappearing on the net every now and then - so much so that we forget where it came from. This is a screenshot from a Pakistani website known as The Frontier Post, as submitted to me way back in 2002:

Seems like they had really good [...]

The Fire brand line of canned coffees from Kirin beverages (a sister company of Kirin Brewery that sells soft drinks) has been on sale for quite some time now. It’s a catchy name - “Fire” - but some of the combinations are kinda funny. Take Fire Ice Coffee for example: 

I wonder if the irony ever [...]

Moral of the story - don’t use internet translations for your instructions! 

Photo courtesy of Nick Garner. Found in Ohnomichi Japan.
I put in the blog because this is Engrish obviously originates with a translation program. 
I try to keep the posts on the main site as “pure” as possible (but I am sure quite a few were [...]

Today (March 14th) is White Day in Japan. From Wikipedia:
White Day was first celebrated in 1978 in Japan. It was started by the National Confectionery Industry Association (全国飴菓子工業協同組合) as an “answer day” to Valentine’s Day on the grounds that men should pay back the women who gave them chocolate and other gifts on Valentine’s Day. (note: [...]

A clever submitter did a bit of research on the Engrish below found at a construction site in Wuhan, China: he input the Chinese in a Google translator and came up with the same exact Engrish translation. So we now know at least one source of Engrish in China:  lazy real estate people. 

 
Photos courtesy of [...]