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More Engrish

August 6th, 2004

If you haven’t been to Engrish.com, you should go there–an on-line collection of all sorts of funny English spotted and photographed in Japan. Not that I don’t see a whole bunch myself. I remember back in Toyama in the mid-80’s, I found a hairdressing salon that sported the name “Hair Salon Bow-Wow.” I kid you not. I already posted about a parking lot sign that somehow misspelled a common two-letter word, the only word on the sign, and about a shop that was unclear on the concept of how sales are “on.”

Yesterday, I was going to the travel agency to pay off the last of my plane ticket to China, and in the entrance of the building there was an ad on two panels of a glass wall to the business there. First you see:

And then:

And so:

I still have some other funny-English photos from the past. I’ll try to post some soon.

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