#the bad engrish

[hachiimi]

Eyo. I used to show my Mysme Oc, but this time I'm showing my Genshin OCS collections draft since 2021 (minus two more genshinoc) <3

All of these characters are connected to each other; and some super short info below

Nicknamed: Father

Age: presumed 100+, likely 200+

Vision: Pyro Sword (teen)/Sword-catalyst (adult)

Story: A man that was 'cursed' to age slowly. From Mondstadt but left it to travel. Famous and known by many names yet never took anyone under his wing until he met young René and eventually Mishka. Had an ability to change his appearance yet halves his strength.

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Name: René

Age: 20

Region: Fontaine

Vision: Hydro Claymore

BG: A bas*trd son of a noble family in Fontaine. Shunned by others, and almost drowned once but saved by 'Father', which took him in under his care. However, he developed a fear to water that eventually turn into an obsession- or so that is how it look like.

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Name: Mikhail/Mishka

Age: 10-12

Region: Snezhnaya

Vision: Cryo Catalyst

BG: Abandoned by her mother, he was left to die under a blizzard. Unknown how did he survived, it was said it was because of the protection of a vision before 'Father' saved him. Until now he still dislike the cold.

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Nam: Liena

Age: 17

Region: Liyue

Vision: Electro, bow

BG: Tho from Liyue, she is barely seen in the harbor due anxiety with stranger which seemingly result of her being raised by her reclused grandparents. Grow up wanting to learn about her father, her goal was to search for him; with the help of words and clues fed to her since child, pointing to a certain person- 'Father' a well-known pyro user

[cromulentbits]

After spending countless seconds scanning a half-page of search results, I couldn't find any link to download the legendary, poorly translated subtitles for "The Two Towers" as an .srt.

Drunk with purpose, I updated an English subtitles file to reflect this collection of screenshots. No other additions or changes made from what you can find on that darling, little Angelfire site.

Here's a link to download the .srt file for your own appreciation.

[accidentalencounter]

lmao, last night i dreamed that the S2 ended with an episode set some months later where the Mews have an updated outfit [that really just was the old design XD except for Mew ichigo that had a whole new outfit, pink AND azure because she needed to be distinguished from Mew Berry (b/c mew berry in my dream had a pink outfit |?|)] And obviously since it was a dream, the whole Berry introdution was totally different, like they were searcing for this new Mew that they didn’t know who she was, and at first they find another mew cat girl that they tried to recruit but it ended up that she worked with the new villain(s), and at the end they find Berry and they make her a Mew Mew (yep, at the start of the dream she was already with power, then at the end no... dream logic XD) and she had the cutest mew mark ever <3

But the best part (for me) was that the whole dream was a big ryotasu fic where the two get slowy together and there was angst when Berry e Ryou meet b/c the show/dream was trying to set them together and I was like “hell no, where the fuck is Tasuku” and Lettuce was super sad and why even in my dream I can’t be free from angst?? But at the end, after memaid!lettuce like flew for the entire city |?| and fell into Ryou arms they were about to talk and... I FCKN WAKE UP ;___;

At this rate I will not survive until november to discover if they would adapt A la Mode XD

[polyglot-thought]

[Mandarin->English] Cloth Coin or Makeup Bag Chinese and Bad English Translation Color Coded Translation

Content Warning: Swearing

整天瞎逼忙，还TM不挣钱

zhěng tiān xiā bī máng, hái TM bù zhèng qián

整天瞎逼忙，還TM不掙錢

ㄓㄥˇ ㄊㄧㄢ ㄒㄧㄚ ㄅㄧ ㄇㄤˊ ， ㄏㄞˊ TM ㄅㄨˋ ㄓㄥˋ ㄑㄧㄢˊ

　NOTE: TM stands for 他妈 (他媽)

Uhhh English:

Whole day I’m fucking busy only get few money

Standard English:

The whole day I’m terribly busy, and I still fucking don’t make money.

　NOTE: I’m not quite set on what 瞎逼 means, but Baidu says it generally means 好烂 (hǎo làn), 好搞 (hǎo gǎo), 好差 (hǎo chà), etc. (all which generally translates to “pretty bad”)

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Please correct me if I made a mistake

[jenndubya]

How tf is the line that I’m most unsure of in this concert thus far a damn ENGLISH line?!

[amarantine-amirite]

Air conditioner?? I think they got “black and white” confused with “hot and cold”.

[tokyorandomengrishshirts]

Mainly

[swagging-back-to]

im sooooo glad they toned down on the engrish for the ISS and got vas who could at least imitate english words

[frivolous-pastel]

This is still hands down the BEST Japanese to English translation failure I have EVER seen

[harunayuuka2060]

Toddler MC: I speak fwuent Engrish.

Ace: Oh yeah? *laughs* Can you give me an example?

Toddler MC: Fuck you! *with two middle fingers*

Ace: ...

Epel and Jack: Pft—

Ace: DEUCE! YOUR CHILD IS FLICKING ME OFF!

Deuce: *yells from the kitchen* What? You liar! My child doesn't do that!

Epel: Yeah! Ace is just making it up, Deuce! Don't worry!

Jack: *telling Toddler MC to put their hands down and saying that it's bad, but he won't tell Deuce about it*

Ace: You all are bad influence!

[inunah]

It's not the worst but uh

"We are sorry that make you meet this problem"

[skaruresonic]

Everytime I catch a glimpse of discussion within the Sonic fandom I feel like I'm going insane.

Speaking purely from my own experience, not too long ago practically every Sonic fan firmly believed that Sonic was an unfeeling hard boiled soldier/action man/dude bro who had zero concern for anything other than his personal amusement. Back then Sonic was "supposed to be" an unthinking action drone that only blows stuff up and runs around doing poses. And if you ever dared to imply that he'd do something sappy, than you would get labeled as a baby who can't handle "hardcore material" or something.

Flash forward to now and it seems like majority is convinced Sonic is a fluffy soft boy who would never hurt a fly and he sincerely prays every night that everyone gets a happy ending. including the people who've done nothing but cause pain. Also he's extremely emotional over everything and hurting on the inside or something. And if you think he should snap back at his enemies you're just an edgelord who doesn't understand anything.

What happened??? How did we go from one extreme to the other??? Why is it so hard for sonic fans to see the characters for what they are instead of making up nonsense???

And if you think he should snap back at his enemies you're just an edgelord who doesn't understand anything.

"So you want Sonic to murder his enemies in cold blood?"

"Where the hell did you get that from? I said Sonic doesn't care about Eggman's welfare and that his attitude seems to be 'if he dies, he dies.' Where did you get 'I want Punisher!Sonic' out of that lol"

Fandoms be fandoming. I personally saw a forum thread back in the day likening Modern Sonic to a soulless vehicle designed to get you from Point A to Point B, in contrast to Classic Sonic who had more "soul." There are always going to be people who think the new shift in direction is soulless, whatever that means.

The irony is, the reason the Adventure games were as comparatively dark as they were (YMMV on that, obviously) was because ST didn't like how cute and Mickey Mouse-ish Classic Sonic was becoming in the late '90s; they wanted to reintroduce, or rather retain, the rough-edged, "bad boy" side of his personality. Hence why they had Maekawa write for those games.

Cultural differences exacerbate these... well... differences in how we perceive Sonic as well. What the West sees as a "bad boy" and what Japan sees as a "bad boy" can be based on very divergent concepts. Kanemaru!Sonic's tendency to sprinkle Engrish sounds silly to Anglophones, for example, but in Japan it's a sign of his worldliness and his overall coolness.

Likewise, SoA!Sonic tends to use harsher language than SoJ!Sonic might use, such as saying strawberry shortcake "sucks" in a Twitter Takeover.

While I can't vouch for how Japanese Sonic fans view SoA!Sonic, to Anglophones, Games!Sonic seems like a squeaky-clean goodie two-shoes Gary-Stu. Which, again, ignores the cultural framework against which his character exists.

All that being said, Sonic is still quite a multifaceted character, even if he isn't the deepest or most fleshed-out in the cast. As a static character who represents an ideal and inspires positive change in others, he doesn't exactly need to be.

Lately I've been seeing a lot of overreductive takes with Shadow which attempt to boil him down to one or two traits at the expense of others, but I imagine it happens to Sonic quite a bit also. Despite being a static character, Sonic, like Shadow, has multiplicity of character. People really struggle with contending with that kind of variability. How he reacts to any given situation will change based on circumstance. Truth resists simplicity, which is antithetical to the kind of Declarations(tm) social media likes to make about the cast. Adding asterisks and footnotes risks diluting the impact of the message. So naturally, people are going to forgo context and nuance in favor of more digestible analyses, in addition to ignoring the games and just plain making shit up.

For instance: "Sonic's selfish" or "Sonic's selfless" is a false dichotomy. The answer is the Schroedinger's cat, both selfish and selfless until someone opens the box, maybe in a quantum state of both. To say one or the other is true ignores the spectrum and the circumstances in which Sonic expresses selfishness vs. selflessness. Sonic can be selfish sometimes, just as he can be selfless, but whether he is or is not depends on what he's doing at the moment and what provokes this reaction.

So on and so forth.

[firstagent]

Digimon Ghost Game #60 Review

Since Ghost Game’s already done the “evil water” thing a couple times already and it was completely obvious we’d see Jellymon’s Ultimate Evolution here, it was going to take a lot for anything to truly dazzle us. Dazzling sure isn’t the word for what we got and it doesn’t quite escape being a half hour of cliches, but there’s still a satisfying execution about everything. The kids plow ahead with either limited or bad information and make things worse, which is better than having no control. Submarimon, Cthyllamon, and Amphimon’s personalities all click with each other nicely and elevate what could have been a real snoozer. It’s also a fitting cap to a round of evolutions that assure us that the Digimon characters are the ones running this season, and from that lens the development isn’t quite as bad as it appears.

You do have to dock points for going with the water motif again. And while Hiro tries to ask questions to make the story plot relevant, nobody bites. At least they mistook the mummified cryptid for the heart of Te Fiti and got appropriately cursed as a result. While that’s all the joy we get from the story, the debut characters make up for it. Cthyllamon is a carefree brat on vacation and his conquest of humanity stems not from a particular hatred of them like AncientSphinxmon, but because he’d have more fun without them around. Balance this out with Submarimon, who isn’t necessarily fond of humans and finds Digimon interacting with them weird, but is chill with it anyway and quick to help the kids out. It’s a nice parallel to have two Digimon with no real experience with humans react to similar encounters with them in completely opposite ways.

That’s not even getting into Jellymon. In both Siriusmon and Diarbbitmon’s evolutions, the partner Digimon drove while Hiro and Ruli got whatever crap could be scraped from the scene. Now that we know the pattern, we’re not shocked to see the same here. Kiyoshiro vowing to step up and be a hero is the same note we get whenever he, well, needs to step up and be a hero. Jellymon gets a nice revelation, supported by Submarimon and Cthyllamon’s attitudes towards humanity: she actually likes people. Whether that’s because she sees them as easy marks or just generally amused by them, she genuinely wants to keep them around. Her evolution Amphimon goes wild with that, reinforcing that attitude with pep and just a little Engrish. It’s nothing mind blowing, but let’s appreciate three new Digimon dropping in and working together to salvage something out of this one.

Initial Grade: B-

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[stereotypeclass2teachercarmen]

Ami Kano

 Stereotyped movies and TV series increase prejudice and discrimination

Have you ever traveled to a country and realized that the image you had of those people was completely stereotyped? Well, that happens more often than we think and one of the reasons the wrong ideas of people get into our minds is movies. Although it seems a little odd, the explanation is easier than it looks.

 Reducing a group of people to a one dimensional character is one of the ways movies perpetuate stereotypes. Cinematic stereotypes reflect and shape common prejudices. Perceptions can be influenced by portrayals of Asians as nerdy, black men as dangerous and Latinas as fiery.  In Hollywood history there are lots of examples of racist caricatures, their focus is Black and Asian people. The 1961 Audrey Hepburn movie Breakfast at Tiffany's and the bucktoothed Mr. Yunioshi, whose stereotypical “Engrish” accent was intended to mock Japanese people. 

“Racism, in the form of job exclusion and racially stereotyped roles, has defined the Hollywood film industry since its birth in the early 1900s," Since always black people have always been portrayed as villains, bad, poor etc. Asians as laughable caricatures such as Mr. Yunioshi. In addition to everything else, that character is played by the entirely white American actor Mickey Rooney, thus making it an example of yellowface: a non-Asian person impersonating an Asian person.

Even nowadays Asians have been marginalized. "Today, most images of Asians and Asian Americans on screen weren't created by Asians or Asian Americans, but by people who don't know much about them," said Kento Ono, student of media representation at the University of Utah. "This creates a very strange idea of who Asians and Asian Americans are for those who don't know any Asian people. And it also creates a very confused and estranged relationship by Asians and Asian Americans to Hollywood, because they can't fully identify with this bizarre representation of themselves."

Although movies can be a good way of entertainment, it's important to understand that they can influence our perception of the world, potentially causing discrimination. 

To sum up, before judging a culture for what we see on movies and TV series. it's important to remember that you can contribute to the prejudice those people are suffering by believing in a stereotyped side of the story.

[max1461]

had a thought. if you are in a foreign country and buy some cheap tourist junk, but you’re not the demographic of tourist it’s aimed at, does it really count as tourist junk? or is it like, actually authentic? obviously these categories are somewhat fake but anyway. like, there are places that get a bunch of russian/eastern european tourists and basically no americans; if you’re an american and you buy some cheap tourist junk aimed at russians I don’t think it counts. you’re not being duped, you’re like, observing the duping as a third party and appropriating it for yourself. I think that’s like, authentic actually. like as an english speaker I really love those shirts with terrible engrish on them from various parts of the world, I want one so bad. but not one that’s funny on purpose, that’s fake. one that’s actually intended to dupe non-english speakers.

[teacupsandcyanide]

hi everyone check out these funny shirts

As an Asian-Australian, one of the delights of my youth was being surrounded by Asian products with bad English on them. Personally I think it's fine to have a giggle at them as long as you don't call it "engrish" and you understand that Westerners are not immune to being similarly bad at other languages. People simply think "hey that other language looks cool, I'm gonna put it on a shirt" and they don't let not knowing a single word of that language stop them. I get really nostalgic whenever I see Asian products with bad English specifically, and I wanted to share a haul with you today, in order of most coherent to most absolutely bananas. I would encourage you to read the image descriptions.

[Image ID: A white t-shirt emblazoned with photos of broccoli and black text outlining the nutritional value of broccoli per 100g (3.5 oz). Text litters the design reading "CALORIE 36.0" and "CABBAGE FAMILY". The masterpiece is headed by the word "Broccoli". To the side of this shirt is another, smaller shirt, also white. The design of this shirt is much simpler, with just the word "Broccoli" in green, and a small picture of broccoli. /.End ID]

Specimen 1: Broccoli shirt. This fits into the popular category of fruit, vegetable, and drink-based attire. Common examples of this tend more towards strawberry, milk, avocado, citrus, and chocolate, though, so the broccoli is distinctly more left-field than the more favoured carrot or radish, typically considered cuter vegetables. I appreciate this diversity and the funducational approach, as well as the fact that there is a smaller, matching shirt, as if for a child or especially large dog. I like how the smaller shirt is tastefully simpler but still includes both a written and pictorial depiction of broccoli, so you get a clear idea of what the shirt's deal is. @redgoldblue when you're finally ready to let me dress you up like a smaller version of me and carry you around town telling people that I'm a vampire and you're a porcelain doll haunted by my human ghost, I think we should start here. Rating this a 6/10.

[Image ID: A black t-shirt cropped to a v-shape, with matching black arm bands/arm warmers. This shirt has a band of distorted pink texture placed exactly where the tits would be, were the wearer a tit owner. Over this texture is the picture of a tabby kitten with a blue ribbon around its neck and a pink rose tucked into said ribbon. The kitten is smiling a Mona Lisa smile and standing on some disembodied piano keys. The words "Here on earth, Joy iy youry" are written in warped pink comic sans. There is something in the upper right corner in tiny pink writing, which reads in part "joy/delight" and then devolves into inscrutable text. /.End ID]

Specimen 2: Sad girl kitten shirt with matching emo arm warmers. Obviously we've all felt when here on earth joy iy youry. Universal human experience. Love the tit highlighter. Shirt looks like the someone communed with Beezlebub to design it. 8/10

[Image ID: A grey t-shirt, slightly over-sized/loose fit. Design looks very American; it has a cartoon planet with a ring around it. Black text arching above the planet reads "INTERNATIONAL" and over the planet green block text continues "Pretty Girls Club". Underneath the planet is more black text reading "FOUNDED BY BINCH CITY". On one side of the shirt there's a slit that cuts up to approx just below the tiddy zone, or at least to the midriff. At the top of this slit are two clothing tags with mostly unreadable text on them, but one reads in all-caps "CHOOSE HAPY". /.End ID]

Specimen 3: Shirt for pretty girls who choose hapy. "Binch city" might say "beach city" but I'm choosing to believe that it says "binch", as "binch" is infinitely funnier. Slit is a wildly unexpected choice but doesn't do enough to alleviate the overall boringness. 4/10.

[Image ID: A blue shirt with one mismatched sleeve in slightly darker blue. Has two large starry cartoon eyes and blushed cheeks hovering, disembodied, on the lower right side, below which is a horizontal cut in the cloth that gapes open like a mouth. Dangling from the hem of the shirt below this face are two long strips of fabric with little chicken feet. The main body of the shirt has a speech bubble reading in large white text "Can you tie a bow for me?". /.End ID]

Specimen 4: Really can't get into this one, lads. Hopefully you too have the dreadful moment of realisation that "Can you tie a bow for me?" means that the cartoon face is inviting you to use its chicken legs to tie a bow through its open maw to hold its mouth wider open in a parody of a grin. This isn't speculation by the way, it's demonstrated in accompanying pictures. 10/10 for "oooh absolutely not."

[Image ID: A white t-shirt totally blank but for the photorealistic picture of a fat ginger cat taped to it with a thick strip of silver duct tape. Cat doesn't look mad about the arrangement. /.End ID]

Specimen 5: This Guy. 21/10, absolute mad lad.

[Image ID: A white t-shirt with some food and drink on the centre, drawn in a sketchy coloured art style. There is a small bowl of apples, and a bottle of milk labelled "milk". There is also a teapot made to look like a fridge, with its door slightly ajar and an even tinier bowl of fruit and a tinier carton of milk sitting on top. Next to this is a plate of either cheese or butter, with a breadknife lying on top and some remnants of unidentifiable food to the side. Words under this plate read "more parsley". There is no parsley on the plate. There are also larger words reading "Good enough to eat BUT DON'T!" with an arrow pointing towards the plate of cheese butter. /.End ID]

Specimen 6: Good enough to eat!!! BUT DON'T! I like that the milk is labelled "milk" so you know what it is. The teapot fridge situation raises more questions than it answers. I feel that the "more parsley" note gives a sense of philosophic allegory to the whole thing. There's no parsley on the plate, but is that why more parsley is needed? Can you ask for more when you have nothing, or do you simply ask for parsley? This design also reminds me of a lot of Korean stickers I've used. 10/10, classic.

[Image ID: A photo of a person wearing a shirt. The shirt is black and oversized, with a large pink toy rabbit dominating the centre of the design. Over this rabbit are all caps in pink and white, reading "MXCHN SAEAY". Beneath the rabbit in smaller white all caps are the words "JUST BECAUSE YOU'RE INVITED' DOESN'T MEAN YOU" then below that also in white all caps the words "FROM THE MIND' OF JORDAN PEELE". /.End ID]

Specimen 7: FROM THE MIND' OF JORDAN PEELE. Now we enter the ever popular gibberish category, crossing over slightly with the category of "selecting random things from Western culture to reference nonsensically", which happen to be two of my favourite categories. I once saw a collection of shirts with the disembodied heads of two of the kids from Stranger Things and text reading "EMILY + ME <3". I don't know enough about Jordan Peele's films to be sure that this isn't actually a coherent reference, but I know enough about Asian shirts to say with some confidence that it probably isn't one. Absolute delight, pleasure to have you here, 11/10.

[Image ID: A cream-coloured ringer t-shirt with navy blue edging at the sleeves and collar. It has a navy blue picture that at first glance looks like a cute cartoony drawing of two people at either a shop counter or having dinner. On closer inspection the picture doesn't actually make sense. There are two people sitting at a table with their backs turned to the viewer, their faces turned to talk to each other. But also the table seems to be two school desks, and at the same time be inside a coffee shop counter. The counter has what looks like a pitcher and coffee press, and two short stools in front of it. The table/desk situation merges into the top of the counter. There is also a light overhead and something that looks like an inkblot picture floating above the coffee press. Crowning this conglomeration of visual gibberish are letters spaced together like made-up words, arching over the whole drawing. These letters/words are "DNHELIE COST" then "1997", followed by "ENJOG DOPS COSRN SN". More words are on the front of the counter, "ene Lirenocs [unreadable] ENJOG Meanris". Somehow, next to all that are perfectly legible words saying "let's go!". /.End ID]

Specimen 8: HELLO? Truly in the total gibberish category now. Prime specimen of its genre. I took a psychic damage hit trying to describe the image. 9/10, point deducted because the design is clearly made up of stolen images merged together.

[Image ID: A white t-shirt with actually coherent design and English. Artwork of an cranky black cat over striped colours with vector art of a syringe above. Layered above and below the main image are the words "I GOT VACCINATED BUT I STILL WANT SOME OF YOU TO STAY AWAY FROM ME". /.End ID]

Specimen 9: Speaking of obviously stolen artwork, this is to a Westerner a totally normal shirt but I cannot describe to you how jarring it was to see this amongst my cutesy frog overalls and FROM THE MIND' OF JORDAN PEELE streetwear. I've tried to recreate the experience by saving this one until towards the end but I fear that unless as a child you also went to Morning Glory semi-religiously to look at journals with "lovely day girl" and bootlegged Disney princess chibis plastered all over them, you simply will not be able to experience the same emotion via the empty illusion of forced immersion. 2/10, clearly stolen, design is too coherent, this is an imposter in my lands.

[Image ID: A white cropped t-shirt printed with pink and blue pastel lettering. Lettering reads "Friendly Reminder, not being racist is not enough". There are pink hearts between the words "is not enough". Below this is a text bubble outlined in pink, which contains smaller black text that reads "Nothing will change unless we recognize and actively work against our own internalized biases, unless we are willing to risk our comfort for the sake of others". /.End ID]

Specimen 10: The only thing more jarring than the vaccinated cat shirt is this, also an obviously stolen design, but worse. This is the inverse of an imposter in my lands. I've seen artwork like this since 2011 on a thousand passive aggressive tumblrina blogs. Why is the DNI page of a white 23-year-old who does nothing but start fights over Steven Universe and have "soft baby pet" in their bio on a t-shirt sold alongside DNHELIE COST 1997. When I look at this I experience two emotions. The first emotion is a complicated inner conflict between knowing I agree with the basic principle of the artwork and not being able to separate it from some of the most unbearable people I've ever crossed paths with. The second emotion is this:

[Image ID: A screenshot of beloved fictional character Mike Wazowski standing in front of a door and screaming at his best friend, Monsters Inc employee and lauded foster parent James P. Sullivan, known to friends as Sulley. Foster child Boo, commonly referred to by Mike Wazowski as "that thing", stands in monster cosplay to Sulley's left. /.End ID]

Okay, I've saved the best for last.

[Image ID: A grey acid-wash t-shirt with a picture of a black skeleton floating with its arm spread out, glowing infra-red. Above its upturned hands are hovering a black star and a globe respectively, also both glowing. There are lightning strikes around the skeleton and poor definition red roses at its feet. Large hippy font words above the skeleton read in all-caps: "MENTAL ILLNESS". Below the skeleton similar all-caps read "SOCIAL MEDIA MAKE YOU BE A DIFFERENT PERSON". /.End ID]

Specimen 11: I believe that if you're a regular tumblr user you fall into one of 6 categories:

you are the kind of person who likes tea and libraries

you think this shirt is somehow problematic

there is some part of you that wants this shirt

you are the kind of person who likes tea and libraries and there is also some part of you that wants this shirt

you think this shirt is somehow problematic but there is some part of you that wants this shirt anyway

a complicated sexy lil mixture of all of the above

Please if you reblog this post put in the tags which category you fall under, for science. Also rate this shirt.