Comments on: Please To Be Closing Toilet Door Omnivorously

By: June

June — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 22:15:17 +0000

Have you seen the Vintage HC in the forums? I found it today, very useful in these hard times

By: Desperate Dan

Desperate Dan — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 19:02:12 +0000

And he is working…

By: chenier

chenier — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 18:00:51 +0000

I must confess, I did at one point wonder whether Anokra is a cover for an extended research project on just how much information can be conveyed without recourse to what might be described as the traditonal combinations of 26 letters, but then I realised that the chances of getting funding for 13 years were about as slim as the Republicans’ grounds for claiming that abolishing capital gains tax would save the free world.

But he is a lot cheaper than the Large Hadron Collider…

By: June

June — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 17:48:06 +0000

Its constructive misspelling, he is planning on creating a new word

(bill in the post Anorak)

By: Desperate Dan

Desperate Dan — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 17:41:02 +0000

You’re right chenier. Chinese wordprocessing software has around 13,500 traditional characters and about half that number for the simplified form.

Not surprising that they sometimes make a mistake when Korana has such difficulty with only 26…

By: chenier

chenier — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 17:22:15 +0000

And with the number of characters in the alphabet s/he would have so much more scope than our own dear Anorka…

By: Desperate Dan

Desperate Dan — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 17:17:37 +0000

At the top of this piece it says:

Please “clsoe” the “tolet” door omnivorously.

There is obviously a Chinese Anroak somewhere employed as a signwriter.

By: coolandcalm

coolandcalm — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 17:07:35 +0000

Hey, I’m impressed!

By: Desperate Dan

Desperate Dan — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 17:03:19 +0000

I am reliably informed that it means Please close the door after oneself (literally). Probably means close the door when you enter or leave.

The second character is not appropriate for the context which is probably why it was badly translated.

在你自己以后请关闭门

By: coolandcalm

coolandcalm — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 14:55:58 +0000

Pigeon. Yes, I’m vegetarian. Like the sign….. I so love mistranslations but still can’t figure the one above though.

By: lone pigeon

lone pigeon — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 14:17:43 +0000

This picture is the globalization of English. Here we have a perfect example of Engrish.
Please omnivorously put the waste in garbage can and please close the door omnivorously. How the Japanese have got to omnivorously from our language is beyond me but they have. here’s another stunning example

http://madsilence.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/engrish.jpg

By: chenier

chenier — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 14:09:34 +0000

…..dairy, if you have a sick little mind then mine’s on life-support…

By: Fully Secured Bank Funding Pigeon

Fully Secured Bank Funding Pigeon — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 14:05:04 +0000

C&C

Are you vegetarian?

By: dairy

dairy — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 14:04:01 +0000

omnivores eat anything ..might be more to do with meat than eat….
there again, the “door” could refer to the lid of the bin which it looks like the figure is throwing his crap into….?
….or is it just my sick little mind….?

By: chenier

chenier — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 14:01:28 +0000

C&C,

You are a professional writer; I shudder to think what you could be imagining, but I’m trying not to think about it…

By: coolandcalm

coolandcalm — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:58:29 +0000

whatever omnivores eat? I don’t know. I’m still lost in my own imagination.

By: chenier

chenier — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:49:03 +0000

Eat what in there?

By: coolandcalm

coolandcalm — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:40:56 +0000

do they eat in there?

By: coolandcalm

coolandcalm — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:39:19 +0000

and whats he putting in the bin? eeuurrkk.

By: June

June — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:38:23 +0000

closing things omnivorously, look how they tackle toilet seats