Spare me my life – Engrish Aerobics
Posted on 29. Jan, 2007 @ 10:04 am by harvey in Humor
Hey guys, quicky.
YouTube video of Japanese aerobics, to useful English phrases such as…
“Spare me my life” and the always useful, “I was robbed by two men”.
You gotta see this… This is the funniest Engrish I have seen in a long time…
[Edit] Hey this stuff is old news! It was on Japundit last year!
- Harvey
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Jessica
Jan 29th, 2007
at 11:51
I’m at a loss for words. Priceless.
Clive
Jan 29th, 2007
at 13:25
Foolproof plan unless there are three men.
:P
mdchachi
Jan 29th, 2007
at 15:02
Actually the English is fine so I wouldn’t necessarily call this Engrish.
Still, I admit that the whole thing is absurd (& hilarious).
Javi
Jan 30th, 2007
at 02:45
I want to share another one. I think that I read it from a book on Linguistics by Steven Pinker, in which he was explaining something related to the lateral vowels in different languages. He gives a very funny example which is something that happened in Japan, when the president Clinton came here after being elected, and the minister who received him at the airport told him something more or less like “we have been following the entire process of your erection”.
harvey
Jan 30th, 2007
at 12:46
Javi, are you talking about “The Language Instinct”? I read that while ago, good stuff!
mdchachi
Jan 30th, 2007
at 22:01
What, are you saying they mispronounced an L as an R? I don’t believe it. Why would they do that?
Chrissy
Jan 30th, 2007
at 22:48
omg lolol! I gonna teach that to my coworkers
Javi
Jan 31st, 2007
at 02:44
Yes, Harvey, that was the book!