Anyone who’s ever learned a foreign language—whether at school or as an adult—knows just how difficult the process can be. Some of the mistakes that you make can seem incredibly funny to native speakers. Meanwhile, there you were, trying your best. But it helps if you look at your own errors with a bit of levity, too.
The r/engrish subreddit takes a lighthearted look at the most egregious English grammar mistakes that were made abroad, whether on signs, posters, or menus. We’ve collected some of the most giggle-worthy ones to show you that the language isn’t as easy to learn as you might think. Scroll down for a good dose of humor (and a reminder to do your daily lessons, whatever language you might be learning!).
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L'otters
Anyone else read the 2nd picture with a THICK French accent? ? lol
Load More Replies...MIstakes plural - they also wrote shoot instead of shot. Unless that's meant to be an instruction! Possibly to the otters!!🤷
Load More Replies...The gun-obsessed ones think they look pretty cool and don’t realize that the rest of the world is giggling about how dorky they look. “Cool guns bro, how’s actually running and managing your country going? Keeping your citizens safe even if they have a different political view than you? Not going very well? Ah, I see....”
Load More Replies...Zombies Must've Gotten Him Already
If you inhale carbon monoxide (CO) you start to feel fatigue, headaches, confusion, and dizziness because of inadequate oxygen delivery to the brain. The post implies that the person should check the CO detector because they are clearly intoxicated so they can't speak coherently.
Load More Replies...Suck My Balls
I laugh my head off at those skits! I honestly don't know how they kept straight faces.
Load More Replies...this is a Yonkoma.... actually I'm pretty sure that Stand stole it from the "Kawaii Not: Cute gone Bad" series since they made it first/ Here is the link to their site to buy the comic .... https://illknowitwheniseeit.com/1080/design/cute-gone-bad/....... Sadly the KawaiiNot site where you could read them is no longer up but you can find a few by googling "Kawaii Not Cute Gone Bad"
This reminds me of something that happened to me a few years ago. English is not my first language and I was working with some Canadians. We were in a lab waiting to do a roughness test on some metal parts and we had to wait a long time. When I finally heard from the lab that the roughness tester was ready, I said to the Canadian guy, "Are you ready for roughness?" I can't explain how he laughed at me. He finally explained to me that I should have said the whole sentence (roughness test). Anyway, I learned something new.
'Do TEFL' points out that in 2022, there were 2 billion English speakers around the world, only 400 million of whom are native speakers.
The r/engrish subreddit is practically ancient by now. Founded all the way back in late September of 2008, it has grown by leaps and bounds over the years. At the time of writing, the community had expanded to over 781k members (or ‘grammar police’ as they like to jokingly call themselves).
Dvd Description
I now know more about the movie Alien than I ever did before.
Load More Replies...And cat help friends to find egg demon, emerging the new-afied 'Scooby-Doo, Where Are You', but with good cat Jonsey instead! 🐈
Load More Replies...Better not give the egg demon bad noodle, then. And who is bad milk blood robot?
The android leaked a thick white liquid when damaged.
Load More Replies...“Scream not working because space make deaf”. Thats much better then “in space no one can hear you scream”
At least I was able to figure out they were talking about the film "Alien".
I once bought a Hong Kong DVD of a French film that was not available in any other form at the time (The Horseman on the Roof / Le Hussar sur le toit),. The film was in French, with Chinese and English subtitles. The DVD jacket included a synopsis in those three languages. English made as little sense as this. I assume that this is Chinese grammar, translated 1:1 into English, with merciless disregard of linguistic idiosyncracies.
Please. 🥺
Which was the future of some idolized "good ole days" at that time. "We live in a decaying age. Young people no longer respect their parents. They are rude and impatient. They frequently inhabit taverns and have no self-control." — Inscription on a 6000 year old Egyptian tomb. [Edit: Well.. Egyptian tomb according to Buckminister Fuller, so take the validity with a grain of salt, but at least the idea of the good ol days was prevalent in the 70's when he wrote that, which some consider the good ole days, so hey, point still stands!]
Load More Replies...I wanna go back to the good old days, but I can't find any that were actually better. Better for straight white men, yes. But not better for me and many others. I keep finding that either I'd be in jail or a psych ward for being gay, or that I as a woman I wouldn't have voting rights or the right to keep my job after getting married, or that my black friends would be kept as slaves. There are elements in society that were better than now, but as a whole? I mean what can possibly be so good about the past that it should weigh heavier than slavery (although modern slavery still exists of course) or the absence of gay rights?
Oh, Deer
Kermit and Miss Piggy would be insulted at the comparison.
Load More Replies...When I first moved to the United States for work and family, I saw a license plate that read: "Your in my country now, speak American." At that moment I wanted to pack by bags and run screaming back to the U.K.
It's not quite as dumb as you'd think. Dude is in Arkansas so it was supposed to be a pun saying Ar-Country. But morons gotta' show their colors multiple ways.
That poor bastard. That explains the hyphen! Thanks.
Load More Replies...Arr..respect arr seas maties! Speak Pirate!
Load More Replies...Legitimate question - is this really common in the US that ppl are telling other to speak English since they are there? I know there are crazy ppl everywhere and unfortunately those are the ones that we hear of most often whereas majority is normal, but I've seen this so many times that I really don't know now
Yes, sadly it's fairly common. I even had a work supervisor say aloud that " they" should speak English if they're here. ( USA)
Load More Replies...The group itself is all about having a good laugh by sharing spelling mistakes, weird grammar, and messed-up-looking text. Everything’s done in the spirit of comedy, and there’s no meanness here. After all, we’re all human. We all make mistakes. However, not everyone’s errors are strange enough to make the entire internet giggle.
This Hotel Offers Challenges
No clues. Just defeat the Boss Karen in room 666 and bring back her tongue
Load More Replies...I don't need a dungeon master. However, I do need to speak to someone regarding the dangers of going alone.
Load More Replies...Yes I can show you the way....but first, my sweet roll has been tooketh
You Wouldn't Download A Fish
Upload a fish for the man, he is forbidden for a day. Teach a man how to download a fish, he is forbidden for a lifetime.
After Two Tries, We'll Just Go With Reduced Prices
I was thinking of translucent ants… ya know, clear ants!
Load More Replies...It's even more depressing when one realizes they had THREE perfect examples right there...!
Reminds me of a graffito: Joe Blogs is innos... inoc... innoss... guilty.
The moderator team running the group has laid out some simple-to-follow rules to maintain a high standard of quality for the content. For example, they ask the community to avoid posting photos or videos of typos or really minor accidental mistakes. If the author clearly knows how to spell the word correctly, it probably shouldn’t be shared on r/engrish.
Joe Is Biden?????
or maybe the news station just needs to check their carbon monoxide detector :p
Load More Replies...I Comited A Criminal
Not really. If you become their spell checker and grammar editor you could find yourself a decent job tax free with an open bar
Load More Replies...I just recently got a text from "jason_a81@aol.com" that said," This is FiithThird bank. Your account has been overdrawn. Please click this link-" Criminals are getting way too smart using personal emails. 0-0
"Pils" might be more appropriate when you're going to be put in bars :)
Load More Replies...Well I Suppose We All Have To Pay To Exist In Someway…
How am I supposed to pay my parking fines before I exist ? Who's fine is this really ??
On top of that, the mods don’t want to see any posts about mistakes made by auto-correct or anyone passing off intentional mistakes as content-worthy pics. Meanwhile, nobody should be making fun of any grammar mistakes that kids make. Everyone has to start somewhere, it would be mean to poke fun at someone who’s completely new to the language.
What
As a Chinese person, yup it’s technically correct. However, that is probably fried dough strings with sesame. It’s good
撒子 (sā zi) is a deep fried noodle found in northwestern China.
Found This On Fb
I speak arabic, first text is: "Hottest email sent in history." in slang, but literally "the most explosive email sent in history". Second text is "And this is the response of HR"
Load More Replies...That dreadful Bob Sponge lives in a pineapple, so, why not?
Load More Replies...The first part is the employee begging HR guy not to cut his wages and wishing the HR guy bad luck and the second part is HR guy telling employee to be grateful he has a job as he had nothing before. before he tells him to drop dead
I got there's a cult of face eaters upstairs who are throwing up children but a pipe of watermelon water burst and if they cut the bread they wlll all die
It appears to be an attempt to translate Pink Floyd's Wall
Load More Replies...Understandable
Love that the picture makes the message no more understandable.
Learning a new language—any language—might seem like a daunting task. But in this day and age, it’s easier than ever. Still not easy. But easier! That’s because there are so many learning resources, both paid and free, available if you have even a basic internet connection. There are plenty of books, videos, projects, and apps that make the entire process as pleasant and smooth as possible.
Crab Raccoon
Such a cute and weird animal! If I ever get to make my 3 wishes, I'll wish for crabraccoons to exist. And my second wish will be to keep them safely away from this restaurant.
Off topic, but this is too cute not to share. Google emoji kitchen, do cow plus cow. Enjoy.
Wow I could spend hours playing with that! Try dog + duck. Or any animal + an object
Load More Replies...Chewing Cum
if you need to chew, then the guy should see a doctor...
Load More Replies...you should see a doctor it should be a liquid-ish sticky sauce like thing
Load More Replies...Fewer things censored lately. Wondering if they switched owners
Load More Replies...Excuse Me, What The F**k
I've tried to use Google translate it. After fiddling around, copying and pasting the Cyrillic alphabet into place, it's 'sausage in dough'. No idea what this would look like. Might it be a sausage was popped into the middle of a piece of dough, and the dough cooked?
That's hilarious. For those of you not speaking russian - it's caused by the wrong translation of a word 'тесто' ('dough') that was confused with the word 'тесть' ('father in law')
"Patty With Chicken" sounds like a forgotten Renaissance masterpiece.
Roll the Father-in-Law and Patty the chicken: another Saturday night in Alabama.
Load More Replies...I mean, if you were going with a literal translation, it would be "sausage of the father-in-law" but that's not much better! Sausage à la father-in-law? Nope, nope, it's all bad! This is why you leave menu translation to the professionals, people. (Speaking as a translator.)
you've heard of teacher porn , you've heard of hospital porn, well welcome restaurant porn
No matter how it's interpreted, it doesn't come out right. Oh, and by the way, Patty is with me.🤪
However, even if you have access to all the resources in the world, what really matters is having the patience and discipline to learn. Step by little step. Having a growth-centered mindset really helps here. Instead of getting frustrated at all the tiny mistakes you keep making, try to view them as proof that you’re taking on a monumental task.
And any effort that you put in means that you’re miles ahead of someone who’s decided to quit. However much time you spend on learning a new language, try to do it daily. And remember the reason why you started in the first place. It’ll help motivate you when things get really tough.
Well
Besides a complete lack of literacy, the biggest mistake I can see is that they seem to think that the 4th of July is New Year's Eve!
I think it makes sense like.. in a way? If you're a kid who doesn't know holidays, you might know the Celebration and they both do include lots of fireworks! :-)
Load More Replies...A little young to be partaking of "the herbs" dont'cha think?
*4* 12:00 P.M Dear bire, gess what! "waat?" today is 4th of JuLie! good by 2007 hello 2008!
Stop Treating Me Like Potato!
I divorced my husband for treating me like a potato. He kept pricking me with a fork and putting me in the oven.
So I guess at some point, you were just done, right?
Load More Replies...Beware Of Monkey
Lmao I was thinking Pokémon. A wild Monkey appeared!
Load More Replies...Actual truth. Monkeys can be vicious and deadly, and will use those pinching strong fingers to rip holes in you. Their teeth can also rip you up.
"Even if you fight, you can't win."... Makes you wonder if there's a video somewhere of the ones that tried fighting that monkey! LOL
Previously, Bored Panda spoke to a journalist and communications specialist who was kind enough to walk us through the peculiarities of English spelling, as well as how spell-check affects us.
"English spelling is such a train wreck, with its myriad silent letters and wildly varying pronunciations for letters and letter combinations. But also, articles (a/an/the) tend to be difficult for people whose native language doesn’t have them, and our tense/aspect blend with combinations of auxiliary verbs makes the English verb system tricky even for native speakers sometimes," she told us during an earlier interview.
He Went To Try The Strange Juice
Why's the dude in the back on fire? Why is he running? Why is only one foot on fire? So many questions?
On behalf of the chickens, I do apologize for the rude and unreasonable ones.🤪
This picture has been on BP at least 5 times now. The ‘strange juice’ is kiwi juice. Because in Chinese, kiwi fruit is ‘strange fruit’. Also, ‘rude and unreasonable chicken’ is just a poor translation of really spicy chicken.
Sign on the left: TO TAKE NOTICE OF SAFE THE SLIPPERY ARE VERY CRAFTY
Business Must Be Great
"This is a local shop, for local people!" -- The League of Ordinary Gentlemen
Load More Replies...From An English-Language Training Webpage
if for no other reason than the fact that "what should do with it" is on there twice, making it THE most common sentence in the english language lol!
Load More Replies...It appears to be a possible translation for proverbs 19:21 in the Bible. Perhaps other cultures say this more? I actually love this phrase, is seems to be a much more concise form than more common translations
Load More Replies...If someone said to me "You can't save your skin." I'm going to run whether they are an English speaker or not.
I love some of these! 'Man proposes, god disposes', 'The book is under the table', and 'A figure among ciphers', are all things you can say with a 'knowing' voice after someone has finished telling you a story.
"You have hit the spot" and "I have come a little while ago" could work perhaps, meanwhile "You should better avoid me"...
Load More Replies...Though spell check is a great tool for catching typos and misspellings, it’s far from perfect. "Where it’s more of a curse than a blessing is with homonyms/homophones because it won’t flag a word that is a word, but not the word you want. Think affect/effect, who’s/whose, led/lead but also word pairs like form/from and not-synonyms like bemuse/amuse, etc," the specialist said.
"Slippageism"
So that's what it's called when you somersault down feet over head
73th... I'm Impressed This Came From Such A Global Brand!
me too - thanks for getting me to look again edit: oh wait! I just realized what you actually typed! 🤦♀️
Load More Replies...They missed the opportunity for 73st, seventy-*thirst*.
My Tea Of Questionable Ingredients
Eye of rabbit, hip hop hum, turn this F*cker, into...
Load More Replies...According to the linguists at Language Log, many or most cases of the F-words appearing in Chinese menus are due to a slang secondary sense of the word GAN meaning 'dry' or 'dried' (干). Many dictionaries typically list different alternative translations without explaining the different senses, and users who don't speak the language may pick the wrong translation - like if you tried to translate Dribbler's "Sausage inna bun" and got "D**k in a buttock" instead.
I-said-a-hip-hop-the-hippie-the-hippie-to-the-hip-hip-hop-and-you-dont-stop-the-rockin-to-the-bang-bang-boogie-say-up-jump-the-boogie-to-the-rhythm-of-the-boogie-the-beat
If someone made a lollipop of this tea, would it be a f*cker sucker? Edit: it would probably be musical.
Hip in the sense of the accessory fruit of the rose, perhaps, misapplied to the seed cone of the hop? Hops are said to have sedative qualities, as is valerian (also an ingredient here).I'd guess this is some kind of bedtime tisane.
Load More Replies...The expert pointed out that English isn’t spelled as it sounds. This is due to a wide range of reasons, including when the words actually entered the language, where they came from, and when the particular spellings were first codified. However, a complete overhaul of the language to make it more ‘logical’ isn’t really possible.
The Hot Chocolate Machine At My Dinning Hall Has Lost Its Innocence
Yes " it's the end of the innocence "
Load More Replies...why is every is every letter capitalized Like This Oh My Gosh Kill Me
No Feet Allowed
*cuts off feet and leaves them by the door, like any good person would do*
*steals feet to sell on the black market*
Load More Replies...My Brother Found This While Living In Japan
Really? I thought smorking was when you smirk while you smoke😏🚬
Load More Replies...Reminds me of the Swedish Chef, "... mork, mork, mork."😂 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4tlzgRqEas
"People have proposed spelling overhauls before but they tend to not go anywhere, probably because it’s such a daunting project—could we all agree on what the changes would be?—and because then an entire body of texts would become basically a foreign language to the next generation. Many factors in addition to spelling contribute to a language’s 'character,' but some spellings do have echoes of archaic English—in my opinion, it would be a little bit sad to lose some of that.”
If you’d like some more grammar-related humor in your life, feel free to check out Bored Panda’s previous features about the r/engrish subreddit.
E X T E R M I N A T E C A P I T A L I S M
If I can exterminate capitalism by eating lobster, I’m all for it! Bring it on!
As lobster is obscenely expensive here, I think I will pass. If I could afford lobster I would not want to exterminate capitalism.
Load More Replies...You have to eat it with binoculars. It’s that tiny.
Load More Replies...Snow Shows.get Them Now For Free!!
The little plows, yes, very useful. But, from experience,, Converse don't perform super well on black ice. And at least in eastern MT, you don't see half of the black ice until you've already landed on your a*s.
Load More Replies...Bababa For Scale 🍌
I just sang that in my head in Gwen Stefani's voice but with the letters shown.
Hmmm K!
Cnt wrk t what thy r tryng t sy. Ndrstnd what y typd bt nt what th sgn s syng
Load More Replies...This must be the Wheel of Fortune cast and crew's pool because you have to pay for a vowel.
But you shouldn't go anywhere without your towel!
Load More Replies...Well... They Missed A Preposition
Unfortunately Misspelt
He had a coven of 13 blokes. I think he could be!
Load More Replies...Jesus got enough of getting nailed and preferred to get railed ?
Ummm Hmm
If you leave them unattended they get burnt. You have to mind them so they get crispy
Load More Replies...$5.89 is a but much for a crispy children sandwich. Or am I just cheap?
This Is Where I Had My Wedding Reception
In Sweden we have 'Plenisal', sal = hall. (Debate chamber, according to Wikipedia).
Load More Replies...Sounds Pretty Lid To Me
Maybe they didn't have permission to use the e? (From a post above)
supposed to be lied not lid... but its been done WELP UR A LID NOW
Anyone Fancy Some Fruity Cowboys?
My first thoughts were of gummy bear style sweets. They were cowboy shaped, and made with fruit. My second thoughts were of a Western film, full of very camp actors.
hey, it's cousin Kenny! (it's funny cause he is a professional cowboy with a rodeo and is gay!)
I totally want a fruity cowboy! Is cousin Kenny available?
Load More Replies...Do Not (Price: 13.000 Vnd)
BP PLEASE ADD A TAGGING FEATURE (I must summon Do Not Touch Da Donut)
Pain
Wonder if sign was created by a person with French as their first language. 'Pain' = 'bread', so 'paincake' makes some degree of sense.
Every French Baker screaming "Sacrebleu" when they se this pic..?
Load More Replies...No Is Not An Option
Not As Bad As You Think !
I picture a plywood shed, a bed on each side and a hole in the center for pooping
I Feel Motivated
What a Journey! https://youtu.be/VcjzHMhBtf0?si=w2hVYGCOeUPROY75
Load More Replies...In the right order it makes sense...When you are tired don't stop - stop when you are done
I had "Don't stop when you are tired--stop when you are done." Same meaning, but my brain swapped the wording of the initial phrase.
Load More Replies...Immediately makes me think of the little boy talking about his dream https://youtu.be/G7RgN9ijwE4?si=c4vDRys5DPhlX04y
This could be a song "When you are🎵when you are tired 🎶STOP! 🎵Don't stop 🎶Dooone🎵
Strange Rice Mouse
Netflix Server Has Been Die
Should try a denied death of service attack. See if it brings it back up.
Yikes
Tent, treat, that, tight, tart, text, thirst... that's just off the top of my head
The thing with these "challenges" is not at all to be challenging, they are just to generate engagement, in the forms of reactions, shares and comments. It's clickbait, or reactionbait whatever you wanna call it. You are tricked to believe there is a puzzle to solve but it's all just a turgent tidbit of tat.
The "challenger" literally wrote "that" in the challenge!
Load More Replies...Pervert Cancer
Are they blaming their cancer on their inappropriate relations with their dogs?
There is indeed a sexually transmitted cancer (genital, not colon) in dogs; it's the oldest known living cancer. E.g. https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/11000-year-old-living-dog-cancer-reveals-its-secrets So yeah there's only one clear way to get it from them.
Load More Replies...Keep dogs away from this dude. Also that's not at all how cancer works but like...keep him away from dogs first.
I am disappointed they're driving a Chevy, seems more like a Mopar vibe.
Load More Replies...They Got The Moves
Banging movements on chicks - sorry, what establishment is it exactly?
We are two wild and crazy guys banging movements on chicks in tight slacks
Yeah, 'movements' can also mean bowel movements, which makes this menu extremely unappetising.
I think all is revealed in the "banging movements on chicks" and "problematic movements"
Load More Replies...Some of my moves are definitely hot dog moves, if only because I eat so many hot dogs.
Wow It Really Be Like That
But I'm still ashamed of his grammar. It should be: You 'are' the because.
Load More Replies...https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_English-speaking_population 10.5% speaks English in India (wiki).
Load More Replies...W H Y
Dot Distab
Mother
or Hungarian (although Hungarian "anyacsavar" a.k.a. motherscrew might have come from German)
Load More Replies...This reminds me of a story in a trade magazine when I was a teenager. Every year they would write about bad instructions sent in by readers. One was a translation error. They said something along the line of "we cannot print the word they used but we think they meant 'screw'".
Imagine Meeting All 4 Of The Criteria
Disabled elderly pregnant children? Must be easy to keep clean; no traffic at all.
This is for all those 60 year olds who seem to only get pregnant when they go to Italy.
Posted At A Beach In Sanya
My Mom Was Looking At Russian Recipes. Facebook Auto Translated One Of Them. Not Sure How You'd Incorporate "100 Years Monkeys" Into A Cake
I don't know... For me the 50 year old milk is the showstopper ...
Load More Replies...It’s been an hour. Are you still in a state of active brain activity?
Load More Replies...As a child I once was at a church group who had the idea to let the kids bake a "bible cake": The receipe was coded in scripture numbers, you had to look it up and fill in the ingredients - I found the idea interesting. Unfortunately the kind of modern bible translation they were using differed a lot from the older one that was used by the receipe's author. As a result, we were wondering why we should beat the sh?t out of some undisclosed fruit and garbage mix, pour sewage over it, and what we should substitute for a brass fire basin? It took an hour until someone actually managed to find an old bible (at a church, no less) and save our attempts to some more or less edible figg and spices cake. I had never thought bible translations even of the same denomination can differ that much from edition to edition. All the more strange that some people tend to take those literally.
Those are some very specific ingredients. Who has 50yr old milk just knocking about?
as someone with a very thick russian accent i’m sure i could say this out loud and it would just reach a new level of hilarity. (Also, Bce=all, maclo=butter)
100 years monkey is bad enough, let alone 100 years pu$$y? No, thank you.
Medal
Dognuts
... which was a misspelling of doughnauts. They're shaped like zeros, a.k.a. naughts.
Load More Replies...I'm Sorry, What?
Maybe so, but with a button that size, you also get to pass or play on Family Feud
I never understood the urge to photoshop things out of proportions. The original is about 2 inches square.
Load More Replies...Not Only, But Also
Well, technically... When you exit somewhere, you are also entering somewhere different.
E N D Y O U R B R O T H E R
I would end my brother if he looked like he’s trying not to puke after drinking 1930’s cough syrup
if you insist (he lived a good 5 years but unfortunatly he is no more)
I know, I have an annoying brother - but I don't think I would want to end him.🤣
Low Budget Scam
Sadly these mispellings etc are deliberate to weed out people with all their faculties. Scammers don't want to waste time, they only want vulnerable people (dementia, brain injuries, learning disabilities etc) to move through to the next phase.
This, misspellings and bad grammar to prey upon the weaker minded.
Load More Replies...Amazon Orders Never Disappoint
Is it just me, or does the break is the glass cup look like a lightning bolt?
Hmm 🤔
I Am Vomit
https://www.insider.com/chris-chan-saga-timeline-incest-charges-arrest-2021-8
That's What Your Mom Said
Tbf, in England we call a valve that turns off gas or water a coćk, as in stopcoćk.
On a yacht they're being operated in the cockpit.
Load More Replies...Yes, this is a normal use of the word c.o.c.k. which was a word you could say in public and use without problem up until very recently (yes, it always also had the rude connotation but context was everything). As mentioned below, a c.o.c.k. is the tap that controls the main supply.
This Questionnaire At A School
glad to know onions have finally been declassified as food, when everyone knows they are clearly ogres.
I can afford the onion. need another paycheck to get the Pikmin for the onion
i do not have enough money for onions, personally. im that poor. #america /j
Guys I Think I Got The Wrong Smell
And the origin of our words grenade and garnet!
Load More Replies...It's "Granada" in Spanish, taken directly from Arabics. Yes, the same word for the fruit and the explosive thingy.
Granada in Spain is named after the pomegranate. It’s also the symbol of the city too.
Grenadine is pomegranate cordial, so I can see there is a connection somewhere. Is pomegranate called grenade in another European language?
In Dutch it's granaatappel: "grenade apple". But that's basically the same as in English, because the 'pome' part in the English word means apple too.
Load More Replies...Served With A Side Of Someone Invading Your Plate
Unconvinced Machine Apologists
McDonald's employee: "PLEASE! Everyone wants what you make! Just work for tonight!" *Unconvinced Mcflurry machine stays broken*
The Fuck Does This Mean
Pretiy Pleasure Boy "Keep Moyikg" (& Yes I Bought/Own This)
Would You Like To Learn How To Bleed Or How To Long Hair?
I'm sure it works. After fighting and bleeding, I'm sure they'll learn how to groan🤦♀️ (sidenote: I looked at the number, and it gave me Denny's in LA.🤣)
i kinda wanna call and see what happens... edit: no one answered
Props for getting "call us before it's too late" right, since there was so much potential for disaster in that sentence.
Oh Dear
Wha?
This is probably equivalent to English speakers getting a tattoo written in Mandarin or Cantonese when they don't speak the language.
probably the same effect as when chinese people see others with random chinese characters on their body
The grammar of a former classmate. I used to die internally every time she said something like “she said me that..”
Do Not Animals
Eat Chicken
This Masterpiece
Subway Lettus
Sponge Boob
This "Warming" On The Box
Ah Yes My Favorite Superhero, Pidmr-Man!
Smooth Daughters... 🤢
Why do men get to be smooth criminals and I have to be a smooth daughter? Fight the hairy patriarchy!
Ah yes, who doesn't long for transparent skin. My lifelong dream of becoming an anatomy model can finally come true!
3 Square
Do Not Disturn
I Hope It Wasn’t Too Big Of A Fall…
...youve been using that emoji on like every post here
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I can't help but think this guy is originally from Liverpool UK by the way he writes chicken. Any other Brits feel the same way?
Scenery does not exactly look like Liverpool- unless things have changed since I was there last.
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French - "jumelles" is twins (feminine) but also binoculars (because you have two scopes - one for each eye).
Full Flavour Or Gtfo
R/Badtattoos
Doctor Say They Good
1rd Grade
Someone Tries To Motivate Us At Work
Explain Why Ladies?
I'll try to decipher..."Ladies, did y'all marry a man that wanted to make dough, and is thought of as important. After he makes dough, he's not important? Explain why? Ladies?" Hell idk
From A Deck Of Cards
I Don’t Know
Except for the "chef's special secret golden brown sauce" ..are those the results of eating from the menu?
Load More Replies...it's "guaiwei chicken" , guai wei is a sauce often used in Szechuan cooking. though it literally translates as "strange chicken"
Found This On A Budget Projector
I can't see "no disassemble" without thinking of the film Short Circuit.
First thought that popped into my head. "Johnny 5, no disassemble!"
Load More Replies...Ok, I won't shoot directly. I'll make sure it bounces off the wall, first.
You can also use indirect fire if you're really good at maths, like with a mortar
Load More Replies...So Uh.. The Copywriter Did An Oopsie. This Is Quite An Expensive Engrish Mistake
I can already imagine the arian brothers in jail wearing that! :))
okay but like...she is SO PRETTY and the traditional attire looks awesome
The Teeth Well Be Broken
Out Of Context, A Sentence. In Context, Engrish Candidate. Spotted In A Taxi In Japan. I Still Don't Know What I Am Supposed To Take Care Of
Why? Just Why?
I think this is one of those posts where you’re tapping the middle autofill word on your phone repeatedly. It’s supposed to be bizarre
I Had The Best Time In 5rd Grade
The person who wrote that sign spent so many happy years in the 5rd grade.
You're Winner!
That's from the truck racing game "Big Rigs: Over The Road Racing". Been ranked as one of the worst games ever made
It's one of those "so unspeakably bad that it's actually brilliant" kind of games.
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The A N D
Citizen Soldier
I think it might be "tailgating" that is illegal but I'm not sure.
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Noo... this should be on the list, right at the top
Load More Replies...One of my local Chinese restaurants has a menu item called "Happy Family". Doesn't have any pictures or description or anything
This is a very very common dish in Chinese restaurants in the United States. https://www.sprinklesandsprouts.com/happy-family-stir-fry/
Load More Replies...Eels are a common infestation in hovercraft.
Load More Replies...Living in a country which shares lots of words with a neighbouring country, but a totally different meaning, adds to the fun. The latter are very fond of our coast, the first love the mountains and rivers of the second, so in tourist areas confusing dialogues are more rule than exemption. "Kies" = one has it in his mouth, the other in front of the house (tooth/gravel). "Bellen" = is what the dogs do in one country, and humans in the other (bark/telephone call). And many, many more
I'm an interpreter. This makes me nuts, but there's something worse. When I interpret into English correctly sometimes I get a look from the hearing person like "huh?" My job would be so much easier if hearing people learned their own language. Why not just learn ASL? It's the ONLY American language.
Noo... this should be on the list, right at the top
Load More Replies...One of my local Chinese restaurants has a menu item called "Happy Family". Doesn't have any pictures or description or anything
This is a very very common dish in Chinese restaurants in the United States. https://www.sprinklesandsprouts.com/happy-family-stir-fry/
Load More Replies...Eels are a common infestation in hovercraft.
Load More Replies...Living in a country which shares lots of words with a neighbouring country, but a totally different meaning, adds to the fun. The latter are very fond of our coast, the first love the mountains and rivers of the second, so in tourist areas confusing dialogues are more rule than exemption. "Kies" = one has it in his mouth, the other in front of the house (tooth/gravel). "Bellen" = is what the dogs do in one country, and humans in the other (bark/telephone call). And many, many more
I'm an interpreter. This makes me nuts, but there's something worse. When I interpret into English correctly sometimes I get a look from the hearing person like "huh?" My job would be so much easier if hearing people learned their own language. Why not just learn ASL? It's the ONLY American language.
