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This topic was created in the Miscellaneous forum by Luz on Friday, March 28, 2003 and has 13 replies.

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@Luz
21 Years1,000+ Posts

i'll keep a look out..

i think i can manage....

"a bench for every life style ..."

(taken from a candy jar)

Excuse me, my chicken burger tastes like watered down mouse....

(From a Burger King in Seoul, Korea)

Japanese text reads: "Sorry, but no
foreigners allowed in King Mhu"

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@Gwendylyn Post
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lol I like the last one the best because it makes absolutely no sense in english. I've seen some funny signs around... I'll see if I can find any to put up.

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@Morganofmind
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It's funny how what you want to say can get very messed up in translation. There's a foriegn exchange student in my spanish class, and every once and a while, she just brakes out laughing, and it's evident that we said something VERY DIFFERENT from what we ment to say.

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@james tate
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The english is hard to get The americans are best at it they can almost speak it. When at university some one told me to speak clear she could not understand me because of my accent. I had to remind her she had the accent we spoke the english first.

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@james tate
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Well perhaps you are right but its like the child who leves home before you know what happen he is talking street talk so we kind of see you as thw wayward child. Just think it over you left because of a tea tax and look what you have now.

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@phoenix_rising
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Language is constantly evolving (or devolving, however you want to see it) and eventually the entire world will speak one language. That's what I think.

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@romeclone
21 Years

Yup you are right we have the accents. However, you do drive on the wrong side of the road.

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@Morganofmind
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lol romeclone, quite right. You know phoenix, even once the world does speak one lauguage, people still won't be able to understand one another.

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@james tate
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Romeclone we have auto's that are right hand drive so to us and a lot of outher countries we drive on the correct side of the road. What the U.S. needs is more round abouts.

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@Morganofmind
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I'm not so sure there would be enough room in a lot of places... More round abouts in NYC? The traffic's bad enough as it is, can you imagine what kind of driving round abouts would cause?