Tuesday, January 10, 2006

How say in Engrish?



Funny story: I saw a sign very similar to this one at the Onarimon station in Tokyo. It was for a handicapped-accesible restroom labeled Dare demo toire: "Toilet for anyone," which they translated into English as "Multifunction toilet." Except that I wasn't wearing my glasses, and I thought it said "MALfunction toilet." Yeah I thought they were calling handicapped people malfunctioned. I took a picture of the sign with my camera phone, sent it to Marc (and maybe Maya too?) and felt indignant everytime I passed by the sign on Wednesday evenings. Months later I was looking at the pictures in my camera phone and-- for the first time-- noticed what it really said. Oops. It sounds silly anyway!

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