Engrish - A guide to understanding a culture
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A Brief Introduction to Engrish
While the term may refer to spoken English, it is more often used to describe written English. Engrish can be found in many places, including signs, menus, and advertisements. Terms such as Japanglish, Japlish or Janglish for Japan, Konglish for Korea, and Chinglish for China are more specific terms for Engrish.
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Engrish in Pop Culture
Engrish features prominently in Japanese pop culture. Many popular Japanese songs and television-show themes feature disjointed phrases in English amongst the otherwise Japanese lyrics. Japanese marketing firms helped create this popularity, resulting in an enormous array of advertisements, products, and clothing marked with English phrases that seem amusing or bizarre to those proficient in English. These new Engrish terms are generally short-lived, as they are used more for fashion than meaning.
Instances of Engrish due to poor translation were frequently found in many early video games produced in Japan. One well-known and popular example of Engrish in pop culture is the video game translation phenomenon "All your base are belong to us", which also became an Internet meme.
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First and for most just let me put this out there this is just for fun I enjoy engrish and Lots of others do too. This lens here in no way anti-Asian racism nor will none be tolerated. Its just a place where I can share some funny pictures with you of mistranslated things. On With the Show
So now you have had your brief history lesson and why It is so popular here are some of my favorite Engrish photos. Also I will try to keep adding several images per week
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Yum Yum Steamed Bum
Just love that fresh anus smell
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For when your finger just dont cut it.
Take that gas prices.
Wow...
Finally something that I myself couldn't come up with something witty to say.
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