# Funniest Engrish Ever!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-engrish-ever/304299>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [May 17, 2005, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-engrish-ever/304299 "2005-05-17T21:21:47Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Honey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honey/32/5074_2.png) [@Honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honey)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2005, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-engrish-ever/304299/21 "2005-05-18T18:41:33Z")

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Hee  
[I love this one](http://www.engrish.com/recent_detail.php?imagename=please-mind-your-step.jpg&category=Signs/Posters&date=2005-04-19)

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**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2005, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-engrish-ever/304299/22 "2005-05-18T22:39:51Z")

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> [@Mangetout](#):
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> Good lord, that’s atrocious! How is it actually possible to translate something that badly? Did they just do a character-for word transliteration or something?

It seems to me as though it’s transliterated and then each word is replaced with the last entry in a thesaurus from another century. (“Prythee” for “please,” “pate” for “head,” “pillroller” for physician, and “sith” for “since”, meaning “until,” etc.)

> [@h sapiens](#):
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> “Prythee no sport with stingy or play asperity game” ???

“Please do not play with this toy carelessly or roughly,” if you were really wondering. 😃

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**Author:** ![if6was9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e47c2d/32.png) [@if6was9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/if6was9)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2005, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-engrish-ever/304299/23 "2005-05-18T23:13:10Z")

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If I had a scanner  
I’d scanner in the morning  
I’d scanner in the evening  
All over this land…

Sorry…

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