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| If you're going to slip, at least take the trouble to do it right! |
No such explanation suggests itself for this next one, which is Japanese. All I can say is that Nyanta makes some pretty strange choices.
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| Not a bed of roses |
Monday, October 28, 2019
Recent Engrish finds
Chinese relies a lot more on context than English does. For example, "[verb] carefully" and "be careful not to [verb]" have the same syntactic form. Context and common sense always make it clear which is intended -- but the ambiguity does lead to some interesting results when translated directly into English.
No such explanation suggests itself for this next one, which is Japanese. All I can say is that Nyanta makes some pretty strange choices.
No such explanation suggests itself for this next one, which is Japanese. All I can say is that Nyanta makes some pretty strange choices.
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