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 thought the gender confusion was a bit funny.
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".
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"Fairest of the Mall"? Maybe she's a Valley Girl. Like, totally.
LOL @ the Loin King!
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dwarfs? not dwarves?
nekkid fireworks sounds pretty good actually
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Really? I have always heard it as dwarves, i guess formed like calf-calves, roof-rooves, sheaf-sheaves.