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Lost In Translation: Misadventures In English Abroad

by Charlie Croker

2021-01-06 01:19:05

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Spoken by over 700 million jabbering individuals, the English language has traveled to all corners of the globe—unfortunately, some of it has got a bit muddled along the way. This book affectionately demonstrates the very best—and worst&m... Read more
Spoken by over 700 million jabbering individuals, the English language has traveled to all corners of the globe—unfortunately, some of it has got a bit muddled along the way. This book affectionately demonstrates the very best—and worst—instances of genuine grammar-gargling from around the world, discovered by the author and his intrepid team of researchers. It includes everything from hilarious hotel signs to baffling advertisements, such as the German beauty product offering a "cream shower for pretentious skin," the notice at a French swiming pool which proclaimed that "swimming is forbidden in the absence of the saviour," or the warning sign at a Czech zoo which instructed visitors: "No smoothen the lion."
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File size7.8 X 5.08 X 0.6 in
Print pages176
PublisherMICHAEL O'MARA
Publication date November 1, 2019
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9781789290738
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Charlie Croker
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