I have to admit that I love "Engrish" - the mangled English that you see on t-shirts, advertisements, and kid's toys all over Japan. There's something about it that is just wonderfully bizarre. I also admit that I did drag Kim into a few stores to see if we could find some fun Engrish T-Shirts, but we didn't have much luck. The one pictured here was pretty cool though.
The only other very peculiar Engrish T-shirt I saw caught me totally off guard. I was people watching on the subway on our trip back to the airport. This guy standing with his family had a t-shirt, in the University Athletic style, that said:
Survival of the Fittest
and then in larger letters across the front of the shirt:
Social Darwinism
I have to say, where I've usually found Engrish to be 'wonderfully amusing', here i found it 'uncomfortably strange'.
No comments:
Post a Comment