Engrish: Touch my Xmas!

Sign fail Engrish for the season... Wouldn't be japan without it!

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African American Vernacular English, AKA "Ebonics"

AAVE grammatical Aspects

Aspect	Example	SE Meaning
Habitual/continuative aspect[54]	He be workin' Tuesdays.	He works frequently or habitually.
Intensified continuative (habitual)	He stay workin'.	He is always working.
Intensified continuative (not habitual)[55]	He steady workin'.	He keeps on working.
Perfect progressive	He been workin'.	He has been working.
Irrealis	He finna go to work.	He is about to go to work.a

via en.wikipedia.org

I get asked a ton of questions from Japanese learning English like, "Why is African-American English so much harder to understand than 'normal' English?"

Well I could go into the whole slavery-creole-no-real-education-for-blacks-at-that-time thing, but I think there's a more studied answer that I can give my students... Hence me looking on Wikipedia...

After reading this, I'm convinced--There must be at least 100 linguists that got their PhDs from hanging out in a North St. Louis liquor store...

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Science Foundation English Fail

Guess their research doesn't include the letter "A"...

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Store name fail

Would you shop here? What do they sell?

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Wallet English fail

Seen in Loft in Sakae. Good wallet though. Almost bought it.

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Tokyo Store Name Fail...

Seem on a shopping bag.

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Yet another Nagoya sign fail?

It should either say Holy day Christmas or Holiday Christmas...right? (actually Christmas Holiday would make more sense)

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