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Lost In Translation
eBook
ISBN/EAN: 9781843177456
Umbreit-Nr.: 3803188
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 176 S.
Format in cm:
Einband:
Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 18.07.2011
Auflage: 1/2011
E-Book
Format: EPUB
DRM: Adobe DRM
- Zusatztext
- In today's world no self-respecting English-language enthusiast could have failed to notice the frequent and flagrant abuse of our native tongue by pesky foreigners? (Forgetting, for a moment, the fact that many nations speak our language better than we do.) Lost in Translation features hundreds of genuine, original and utterly ridiculous examples of the misadventures in English discovered all over the world by the author and his intrepid team of researchers. Including everything from hotel signs to baffling advertisements, such as the German beauty product offering a 'Cream shower for pretentious skin' or the Japanese bar that boasts 'Special cocktails for ladies with nuts', Lost in Translation demonstrates how widely the English language has travelled, though unfortunately some of it seems to have got a bit scrambled en route.
- Kurztext
- <p><b>Spoken by over 700 million jabbering individuals, the English language has travelled to all corners of the globe unfortunately, some of it has got a bit muddled along the way ...</b> <i>Lost in Translation: Misadventures in English Abroad</i> 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.</p>