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Asian Shirts (more images in post body) (files.catbox.moe)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

Last time I went back to Taiwan, I made sure to seek out Engrish shirts at one of those clothing markets. Here are a few I found.

a shirt with a picture of a woman printed on it. The english text on the shirt says "Laundry Room ~loads of fun"

a shirt with "orlifornir" printed on it. its clearly meant to say "california"

a shirt with text on it. the text says "clothing" then a bunch of random letters.

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a picture of signage in the window of a cafe that says "bread (new line) is the staff of life". its clearly meant to say "staff" instead

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

"bread is the staff of life" is a real phrase though.

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/staff_of_life

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wow big oops on my part, TIL!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Me, too!

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