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Category: China • Humour • Language
Posted on: June 21, 2008 12:45 PM, by Martin R
Looking closer at this cover of a Chinese pirate edition of Disney's 1937 animated feature Snow White, we find a couple of fine Engrish phrases.
"Latinum Edition" is pretty good. But wouldn't you agree that "Still the Fairest of the Mall" takes the cake?
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I have a China-bought Sleeping Beauty DVD, the synopsis of which begins thus (punctuation and spelling as in the original): "Long long ago,There is a little country lived king and queen,They very want a boy They finally realizesed their wishes,They gave their baby a name of Alola,From now on her life is filled with the sunlight[...]"
I thought the gender confusion was a bit funny.
Posted by: Mikael H | June 21, 2008 1:15 PM
They're probably referring to the Kinks song "Lola".
"Now I'm not the world's most masculine man, but I know what I am and I know I'm a man and so is Lola..."
Though I suppose in Engrish, it's "Rora".
Posted by: Martin R | June 21, 2008 1:19 PM
"Latinum" is a medium of exchange in the mythology of Star Trek, Deep Space Nine. Maybe the Chinese are all closet Trekkies.
Posted by: decrepitoldfool | June 21, 2008 2:11 PM
The Loin King: http://www.engrish.com/detail.php?imagename=loin-king-3.jpg&category=CHINGLISH&date=2007-01-18
Posted by: Mikael H | June 21, 2008 10:31 PM
"Fairest of the Mall"? Maybe she's a Valley Girl. Like, totally.
LOL @ the Loin King!
Somewhere (probably still in the camera along with a bunch of other stuff I haven't offloaded yet) I've got a picture of a package of fireworks with the warning: "USE NUDER ADULT SUPERVISION." Now I don't know about you, but I can't imagine using fireworks when I'm naked - with or without supervision!
Posted by: themadlolscientist | June 22, 2008 1:22 AM
dwarfs? not dwarves?
nekkid fireworks sounds pretty good actually
Posted by: Mary Evelyn Starr | July 12, 2008 4:43 PM
"Dwarves" and "elves" was actually J.R.R. Tolkiens invention to distinguish his fictional peoples from generic dwarfs and elfs.
Posted by: Martin R | July 12, 2008 4:48 PM
Really? I have always heard it as dwarves, i guess formed like calf-calves, roof-rooves, sheaf-sheaves.
Posted by: mary Evelyn Starr | July 12, 2008 5:38 PM