Saturday, March 31, 2007

Silly English

Too late at night to write a long post, but not too late for a couple little tidbits of silly English that I found at various recent points in time!

On a box of chocolate moon pies:
"Confidence of creating deliciousness. This tastiness can not be carried even by both hands."

On a package of cookies:
"Galuptious red bean biscuit" (I had to buy them, naturally. They were galuptious!)

On a T-shirt in XiDan Market:
"Sky fragrant clothes human"

On a hot pink bag in a little shop outside the South Gate of Beida:
"Music Beer" (simple but eloquent, right?)

On the back of a girl's sweatshirt, next to (possibly describing?) a picture of Mickey Mouse:
"Beautifu" [sic]

And the mother of silly English, some excerpted lines from a song by the Korean singer Rain that I found in a bookstore...it looks like maybe someone accidentally put actual Korean words through an English spellchecker, so only the really weird ones came out unscathed:
"armature among nail ireful bullojumyon"
"gangryorhan maji nail mom sage palimony"
"new widgeon"
"toil god gather speaker scoria nil kimono"
"day mightily chef let it go"
and of course, "woman golf Alana item mode boohoo"

At some point when I am less sleepy I will write about my painful experience attempting to send a fax, techniques for fending off sketchy Chinese men, a slight disappointment at the fabled golden pig store, and visiting the really cool Beijing modern art district! Hen hao!

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