Here speeching American : a very strange guide to English as it is garbled around the world /
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Author / Creator: | Petras, Kathryn. |
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Imprint: | New York : Villard Books, c2004. |
Description: | xiv, 223 p. : ill. ; 19 cm. |
Language: | English |
Subject: | English language -- Errors of usage -- Humor. English language -- Foreign countries -- Humor. Communication, International -- Humor. Communication, International. English language -- Errors of usage. English language -- Foreign countries. Humor. |
Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5538183 |
Summary: | THE STRANGEST (AND FUNNIEST) TRAVEL GUIDE YOU'LL EVER READ<br> <br> The celebrated authors of the perennial bestseller The 776 Stupidest Things Ever Said set the typical travel guide squarely on its head-taking you from the airport to the hotel, from sightseeing to dining out-by using 100 percent real examples of fractured English as spoken and posted abroad:<br> <br> * Feel like shopping?<br> We have no good things to sell.<br> -shop sign, Lovina Beach, Bali<br> <br> * Feeling sick?<br> Are you haunted by the horribles? Do you run after your own nose?<br> -Japanese medical form<br> <br> * Wondering what to wear?<br> A sports jacket may be worn to dinner, but no trousers.<br> -in a French hotel brochure<br> <br> * Wondering where to eat?<br> Grill and Roast your clients! Open for lunch, dinner and Sunday Brunch.<br> -slogan of the Hibiscus restaurant in the Jakarta Hilton International<br> <br> <br> But don't take our word for it, come see for yourself. And if that's too much to ask, remember the sage advice from the staff of a Taipei hotel: "If there is anything we can do to assist and help you, please do not contact us." |
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Physical Description: | xiv, 223 p. : ill. ; 19 cm. |
ISBN: | 0812973151 (pbk.) |