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These are called mistakes, but I must say I enjoy reading these formations of language in the same way I enjoy good poetry. Enjoy . . .
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Journalism 110
Grammar and language mistakes
The following are examples from around the world illustrating what happens when we misuse the English language.
In a Belgrade hotel elevator:
To move the cabin, push button for wishing floor. If the cabin should enter more persons, each one should press a number of wishing floor. Driving is then going alphabetically by national order.
In a Tokyo Hotel:
Is forbidden to steal hotel towels please. If you are not a person to do such thing is please not to read not is.
In a Rhodes tailor shop:
Order your summers suit. Because is big rush we will execute customers in strict rotation.
In a Yugoslavian hotel:
The flattening of underwear with pleasure is the job of the chambermaid.
On the menu of a Polish hotel:
Salad a firm’s own make; limpid red beet soup with cheesy dumplings in the form of a finger; roasted duck let loose; beef rashers beaten up in the country people’s fashion.
From a brochure of a car rental firm in Tokyo:
When passenger of foot heave in sight, tootle the horn. Trumpet him melodiously at first, but if he still obstacles your passage then tootle him with vigor.
Two signs from a Majorcan shop entrance:
English well talking.
Here speeching American.
Examples of English misuse found in various student papers from the United States:
* The patchwork guilts had been sown by Grandma Dee.
* I felt as if I had been trown into a room of hungry loins.
* You always new when he come in the room because of the smell of his strange colon.
* Next, break the eggs into two bowels.
* Teachers harassing students will continue because the authorities don’t care about the students body.
* He slipped into a comma and died.
– Richard Lederer’s, “Anguished English”
strange colon, indeed!