Monday, March 8, 2010

Things in English? Vol. 1

This is the first of what I hope will be many posts on the interesting use of the English language. Of course it is cool to use another language, even if you really do not understand the full meaning or a word or how to spell it. What is important is that you use it with confidence because the only people that do know it is incorrect cannot communicate well enough with the locals to expain your error anyway. It is very similar to Americans who get 'infinity' tatooed in Japanese charaters only to find out years later that it really says "Donkey."
Everyone loves mom and meat right?

Such a cool label had to be producted by someone

No errors here...just liked the sign.
Something about it reminded me of the south.
Much funnier if you say it like the first line of 'Romper Stomper'

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Not the tasty beverage I was hoping for

Instills confidence in me

You may be noticing a theme but I am not trying to pick on hair salons. Perhaps in their field it is very cutting edge to use English. Or perhaps it is because 50% of the small businesses in Tokyo are hair salons, so they are just statistically more likely to make a mistake, or should I say words use purpose confuze

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