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English as a Global Language

English as a Global Language. By Don L. F. Nilsen (pictures from www.engrish.com ). Global Business English. Japanese Hotel Room: You are invited to take advantage of the chambermaid. Paris Hotel Elevator: Please leave your values at the front desk.

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English as a Global Language

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  1. English as a Global Language By Don L. F. Nilsen (pictures from www.engrish.com ) 20

  2. Global Business English • Japanese Hotel Room: You are invited to take advantage of the chambermaid. • Paris Hotel Elevator: Please leave your values at the front desk. • Tokyo Hotel: It is forbidden to steal hotel towels please. If you are not a person to do do such a thing is please not read this notice. 20

  3. Leipzig Elevator: Do not enter the lift backwards, and only when lit up. • Athens Hotel: Visitors are expected to complain at the office between the hours of 9 and 11 am daily. • Belgrade Elevator: To move the cabin, push button for wishing floor. If the cabin should enter more persons, each one should press a number of wishing floor. • Tokyo Shop: Our nylons cost more than common but they are better for the long run. 20

  4. Sarajevo Hotel: The flattening of underwear with pleasure is the job of the chambermaid. • Moscow Hotel: You are welcome to visit the cemetery where famous Russian and Soviet composers, artists and writers are buried daily except Thursday. • Swiss Menu: Our wines leaving you nothing to hope for. • Norwegian Lounge: Ladies are required not to have children in the bar. 20

  5. Hong Kong Tailor shop: Ladies may have a fit upstairs. • Bangkok Dry Cleaners: Drop your trousers here for best results. • Paris Dress Shop: Dress for street walking. • Rhodes tailor Shop: Order your summer suit. Because is big rush we will execute customers in strict rotation. 20

  6. Rome Laundry: Ladies, leave your clothes here and spend the afternoon having a good time. • Copenhagen Airline: We take your bags and send them in all directions. • Moscow Hotel: If this is your first visit to the U.S.S.R., you are welcome to it. • Acapulco Hotel: The manager has personally passed all the water served here. 20

  7. A Vegetable 20

  8. Asian Rear 20

  9. Baby’s Fanny Mushrooms 20

  10. Bottled Water 20

  11. Crap your Hands 20

  12. Crippie and Gravid 20

  13. Dogs Sauce 20

  14. Dying 20

  15. Getting Off 20

  16. Hard Times 20

  17. HO ENTRANCE 20

  18. Robster 20

  19. Starbutts 20

  20. !Tinkling Heart 20

  21. !!Turd Baby 20

  22. !!!Very Suspicious Supermarket 20

  23. References: Rhode, Michael, and John A. Lent. “Comic Art, 2005-2009: A Global Bibliography.” Special Issue of International Journal of Comic Art 11.3 (Winter, 2009): 1-626. 20

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