# Taking Engrish to new heights (depths?)

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taking-engrish-to-new-heights-depths/410752>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [July 6, 2007, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taking-engrish-to-new-heights-depths/410752 "2007-07-06T16:43:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2007, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taking-engrish-to-new-heights-depths/410752/21 "2007-07-07T12:41:12Z")

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The OP’s chopstick wrappers are everywhere in the US. I first saw the trademark closer “Now you can pick up anything!” 20+ years ago.

I think the spelling has gotten worse over the years, which I attribute to somebody at the printing plant in Guang Xiau who speaks zero English re-typesetting it from a fax of a bad photocopy of the last one left in the bottom of the last box in Chicago sent via distant relatives in Hong Kong & Taipei. Hence glorious becomes glonous. After 15 roundtrips even the punctuation is going, with ! at the end becoming :

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