I’m sure everyone reading this will know about the phenomena of Engrish and have seen some pictures. Living here is hard to ignore it but I never seem to run into the more extreme examples that you seem to see around the shoes web.

Now, I’m no language snob, as long as the message is there and understandable, the language has done it’s job. I’m not going to point out every little error someone makes, especially when my Japanese is so bad. When you run into things like this sign though, you just have to despair.

For those who don’t know AEON is a chain of English schools here in Japan which, as far as I’m aware have a fairly good reputation. God knows how it can keep that reputation when it has a bloody English error in it’s slogan. I was actually offered an interview with this company back when I was still in England. I knew something was up when they told me that there would be no more interviews in London but suggested that I go to one in New York.

New York!

Sure, that’s not out of my way at all! Who can afford to go to New York just for an interview?

Imagine though that I had got over the pure oddity of travelling all the way to New York for a job interview for a job based in Japan and made a holiday out of it. How sick would one feel, after the stress of the interview and the money spent on air fares to America and Japan, to be confronted with the words HEARTFUL ENGLISH as you begin your first day of teaching the language?

I won’t write the words to describe how I would have felt here, mainly because it would be pretty STOMACHFUL ENGLISH.

Confectionery for the fairer sex.

Yay!

I still need to send presents to people. Curse my laziness.

I don’t think I ever actually finished a game of Warhammer back in the day.

Innocence