Friday 30 July 2010

Thankyou?

But why are typos and mistakes merely annoying when you're closer to home? This one from Scotland.

Engrish

I dared not have the juice that apparently "cures sex"....



We weren't quite sure what we were supposed to do in case of a flash flood...




I love these little treats when I go abroad. Signs and menus with funny English. These delights are from Thailand.

Funny Translator

One could have hours of fun playing around with this new "gadget". It's called Funny Translator and it highlights the important difference between real translators and machine translation. It takes your English sentence and abuses it in a number of online machine translation tools. Several different languages later you have an end-result that barely resembles English anymore.

New documentary on languages

I'll be looking forward to watching this on the BBC soon:

"In Planet Word, a five-part series on language for BBC Two, Stephen Fry dissects language in all its guises with his inimitable mixture of learning, love of lexicon and humour.

From the cutting-edge of linguistic research to the glories of world literature, Stephen analyses how we use and abuse language, corral it for good and bad, and seeks out whether we are anywhere near to beginning to understand the complexities of its DNA."