# Best Engrish item I've seen **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 20, 2012, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-engrish-item-ive-seen/622539 "2012-05-20T20:21:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2012, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-engrish-item-ive-seen/622539/1 "2012-05-20T20:21:37Z")
I went to London yesterday and in one of the gift shops in the Trocadero, found a notebook, with the following profound poem on it: > [@](#): > > **Love Is…** > > Sunshine 3cm 3cm air > Blocking in front of like a glass > Left to get in your face only footprints > > Walk straight ahead from the finish > Has been no recall to the back > I am very pleased to have the mind > > To help trapped by their own > My arms all the warm air > Into the wind and you can not meet > My mind evaporate into cloud > > Then become rain, but you want to rain > Hiding in a quiet corner if you look back > Do not care ---
**Author:** ![Lancia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lancia/32/17174_2.png) [@Lancia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lancia)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2012, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-engrish-item-ive-seen/622539/2 "2012-05-20T21:53:30Z")
Hell, makes more sense than Gertrude Stein. ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2012, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-engrish-item-ive-seen/622539/3 "2012-05-20T22:31:40Z")
Love is hiding in a quiet corner if you look back. I like it!!! ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2012, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-engrish-item-ive-seen/622539/4 "2012-05-21T19:23:57Z")
I’d love to know what it was supposed to mean if it had been translated properly - the first stanza looks like it ought to be something like Sunlight reflecting from the window Through the air Inches its footsteps across your face Anybody got any ideas about the rest (or indeed better ideas about the first)? ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2012, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-engrish-item-ive-seen/622539/5 "2012-05-21T19:46:58Z")
> [@](#): > > Sunshine 3cm 3cm air > Blocking in front of like a glass > Left to get in your face only footprints All your base are belong to us ---
**Author:** ![Greg\_Charles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/839c29/32.png) [@Greg\_Charles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greg_Charles)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2012, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-engrish-item-ive-seen/622539/6 "2012-05-21T22:32:05Z")
“3cm 3cm” was maybe supposed to be “inch by inch”. That’s not breaking the code though. ---
**Author:** ![coremelt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@coremelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/coremelt)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2012, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-engrish-item-ive-seen/622539/7 "2012-05-22T01:14:37Z")
I like this one: > **[Japanese Department Store Offers 'Fu\*\*\*\* Sale'](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/japanese-department-store-sale-sign_n_1200068)** > > Japanese Department Store Offers 'Fu\*\*\*\* Sale' This was a pretty major department store chain here in Osaka and only last year. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Girlfriend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.girlfriend/32/193_2.png) [@Dr.Girlfriend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Girlfriend)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2012, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-engrish-item-ive-seen/622539/8 "2012-05-22T01:34:41Z")
“My mind evaporate into cloud”… too much cold medicine does that to me too… ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2012, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-engrish-item-ive-seen/622539/9 "2012-05-22T02:01:04Z")
Fuckin’ sales, how do they work?