{"id":1533,"date":"2013-05-31T04:22:35","date_gmt":"2013-05-31T11:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/?p=1533"},"modified":"2013-05-31T04:23:15","modified_gmt":"2013-05-31T11:23:15","slug":"t-shirts-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/2013\/05\/31\/t-shirts-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"T-Shirts in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.engrish.com\/\">Poor English translations<\/a> are nothing new to me, even as a Vancouverite. They kind of just roll off me without notice by now. &#8220;Fish is to eating&#8221;&#8230; I think &#8220;I guess they serve fish,&#8221; but nothing else.<\/p>\n<p>But as a service my friends <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.herrohachi.com\/\">Kym and Mark at Herrohachi<\/a>, I decided to watch for T-shirts with odd English. When I saw one, I jotted it down in my phone.<\/p>\n<p>What follows is a two-week supply. Spelling and punctuation is as close as I could get it. I have made no real attempt to preserve design, formatting, or even line breaks. The slash indicates a line break where I recorded it.<\/p>\n<h4>Nonsense<\/h4>\n<p>These just don&#8217;t make sense&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>No suntan [above a picture of bulldog]<\/li>\n<li>Hear space <\/li>\n<li>Cute girl&#8230; Lovely candy <\/li>\n<li>Teenage and dreams [on a middle-aged woman] <\/li>\n<li>Powderbrush<\/li>\n<li>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.ca\/search?q=nin+logo&#038;hs=k6b&#038;channel=fs&#038;tbm=isch\">Nine Inch Nails NIN logo<\/a> above&#8230;]  Awe inch nars<\/li>\n<li>Camouflage baby car<\/li>\n<li>Withe in men [worn by a guy] <\/li>\n<li>Design T-shirts Store Graphics <\/li>\n<li>Play \/ playground in love <\/li>\n<li>Fashion. Cool. Mr. <\/li>\n<li>We like art go art gallery.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;M&#038;BYP&#038;D<\/li>\n<li>Girt drives you grazy love <\/li>\n<li>My favourite color 72 <\/li>\n<li>Obedient snake vals<\/li>\n<li>Happy feet \/ Ihaeys dream cit&#8221; [the unmatched quote was part of the text]<\/li>\n<li>I want to live it up my life. <\/li>\n<li>Wonderfulgame \/ 1st champion better than everyone. <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/gallery2\/2013\/hangzhou-05\/20130529-191241-greggalaxy.jpg.html\">Don&#8217;t take your horse virus challenge my password<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/gallery2\/2013\/hangzhou-05\/20130529-191321-greggalaxy.jpg.html\">California \/ dare to shout out my own opinion and to do<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/gallery2\/2013\/hangzhou-05\/20130529-191343-greggalaxy.jpg.html\">Get ready to \/ Your Dream \/ London City<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Unusual<\/h4>\n<p>These are perfectly reasonable English, but not-quite-right on a T-shirt<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I only sleep with the best<\/li>\n<li>Bed and breakfast<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m a real sketch fan! [below line-art sketches of random plants]<\/li>\n<li>Nice tag line <\/li>\n<li>FART (in 6 inch glittery letters) <\/li>\n<li>Hurry up<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s your turn \/ I like rugby it&#8217;s so fun  [on a girl that I could have picked up and thrown with one hand] <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poor English translations are nothing new to me, even as a Vancouverite. They kind of just roll off me without notice by now. &#8220;Fish is to eating&#8221;&#8230; I think &#8220;I guess they serve fish,&#8221; but nothing else. But as a service my friends Kym and Mark at Herrohachi, I decided to watch for T-shirts with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1533"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1537,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1533\/revisions\/1537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}