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[neil537]

the following comes from the side of a bag of Paris Baguette 56 Hour White Bread I bought yesterday. I have not altered it in any way (spelling, punctuation etc.) apart from changing it to lower-case from all capitals.

"It kneads a dough with the boiling wter high temperature and hour from low temperature and maturing a natural taste deeply and it saves with chewy it is soft there is the recording wall hun-dred which it will chew it does and a possibility of feeling simultaneously with the bread. the flavor taste there is a possibility of seeing and it is a bread."

My favourite part is the last 5 words. Brilliant.

Anyone else found terrible English on Korean packaging?

[asams]

One of my student's notebooks, that was apparently made specifically for English, spelled it 'Engilsh' on the front cover.

[highdials5]

This always amazes me. Why don't they just ask a native English speaker to proofread it, or better still, actually write it in the first place! Would it cause them to lose face by admitting their English skills aren't up to par?

[Underwaterbob]

[tefain]

Yeah we could go on for pages about bad English on packaging.

However, I have noticed less English wording on some products lately.
My bottled water changed it's label. It did say it's source in English and now it's all in Korean.

[Loudog]

English was spelled Engllish in our new, expensive, mandatory cd-rom that we have to use in all our classes.

[Panda]

Lots of us non-English speakers put English on packages, covers or whatever for the purpose of decoration.

They don't really care if you would read it or not.

Who wouldnt know a bread is a loaf of bread.

[the ireland]

We put English on stuff because we got invaded

I like the whole konglish thing, it's kooky and I think it is always funny to spot some terrible terrible English on packaging etc.

[carpetdope]

It puts the poppy seeds on the loaf or it gets the hose again.

[ED209]

Panda called it. It's 'Decorative English', like that crappy Chinese tattoo your ex-girlfriend back home got, who insists it means 'friendship', but every Chinese person she shows looks befuddled.

[detourne_me]