Engrish & Funny Typos

Well,

This garage sale is 4 a collage fund.  You should go buy stuff from them.  A lot of stuff.

Um…

OK.  Shakespeare is spelled, well, Shakespeare.  Also, this is from a Turkish website, where they took a poem, translated it from English (presumably Shakespeare’s English) into Turkish, and then translated it back to modern English.  Maybe it’s this one?

“When my love swears that she is made of truth
I do believe her, though I know she lies,
That she might think me some untutor’d youth,
Unlearned in the world’s false subtleties.
Thus vainly thinking that she thinks me young,
Although she knows my days are past the best,
Simply I credit her false speaking tongue:
On both sides thus is simple truth suppress’d.
But wherefore says she not she is unjust?
And wherefore say not I that I am old?
O, love’s best habit is in seeming trust,
And age in love loves not to have years told:
Therefore I lie with her and she with me,
And in our faults by lies we flatter’d be. “

Sonnet 138

When you want to really communicate a message

The funny thing is that the rest of the sign pretty much makes no sense.  Obviously, some of the sign is cut off, because I’m pretty sure it’s impossible to give off HZs of sleep studies.  If so, we’d all be in trouble.

Found on Cota (Central Ohio Transit Authority) Columbus, Ohio bus stop:

Nothing goes better with jass than ribs.

Yard Sale

It’s tomarow.  Do not stop today.  Dont’ do it.

I’m just going to go ahead and copy this word for word -

Go to Wall Mat

Lest For Wall Mat

2 Qorts of oll 30 wet
2 Box’s of Dod food
Toylet paper 12 Big Rols $5.50 Family Dolalr
Get Sum pekgers Davlmt
Get some Deoteret (insert picture of deodorant)  SPEED Stick
Lady Sup
Bady wesh
Paper Towles 8 Rolls $6.00 Family Dollar
Dayer send’s
Tide Powder 43 to 55 lood’s.
Gain Lood’s Ligtid 45 to 64 Powder 63 to go

This person may be a terrible speller, but at least he or she is smart enough to know that Wal-Mart matches lower prices.  Let’s just hope they brought that Family Dollar circular to the store with them, and that they used their own list, other than sending a more literate family member.

I guess if you weren’t picky this could work, but assuming that everyone knows what this phrase is supposed to really say, I’m going to have to give this a great big “Try again later.”

photo credit: julianlimjl

For twenty cents how cute can you expect your ice cube to be? I’m guessing a 3 on a scale of 1 to 10. Typos are rarely this cute though.

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Well, it’s good to know that the soldiers can continue to expand their cultural horizons at the Al Qaeda Opera House, but due to their depressive nature, opera may not be the best thing.

That’s right, start them off early learning the wrong homophone. If they want to learn, they’re going to learn something twice.