There’s a really funny website that a friend of mine showed me recently. It’s called http://www.engrish.com/ and is just what it sounds like: a collection of photos of mis-translated or otherwise funny English mistakes that appear in Japanese ads and product labels. LOTS of different categories, including candy, menus, instructions, stationery, toiletries, and many more. Many of the pictures have short captions below them, which usually add to the humor or help explain if you don’t get it.

Here are a few examples:



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