Thank you for your Mother

The folks at Tokyo Disneyland are celebrating Mother’s Day by thanking us for our mothers [photo submitted by Pat]:

thank you for your mother

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14 comments - What do you think? Posted by James - May 10, 2009 at 1:31 pm

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Richard

…she was great last night.
http://idahocheneys.blogspot.com Rachel@IdahoCheneys

Awesome! I hope it’s alright, it was so funny I posted the picture on my blog, linking back to you.
http://witzl.blogspot.com/ Mary Witzl

That is splendid. I feel so special now, just having a mother. And I accept, on my mother’s behalf.
http://andyfossett.com Andy Fossett

I knew my mom had gotten around, but Tokyo Disney? Really. She should have at least called to tell me she was in Japan. We could have had lunch or something.
http://www.squidoo.com/Best-Books-on-Japan Eric

Thank you, I mean really, thank you. There is no bigger MILF around than your Mama.
Rudie

What’s great is I remember seeing this sign two years ago.
Supercoolmanchu

I think some Engrish we encounter are simply misinterpreted or read out of context. I’m pretty sure they were trying to showcase some lovely Mickey Mouse-shaped chocolates, polo shirt and towels suggesting we purchase them as presents as a “thank you for your mother” for Mother’s Day.

But yeah.. I just can’t see why the Japanese feel the necessity to write things in English all the time when a simple Japanese phrase would have been sufficiently elegant for this display.

Supercoolmanchu

Thanks but duh it is not. Great majority of great Engrish are Engrish no matter how you look at it, in any context, disjointed phrases, grammatical errors and the like that simply don’t make sense. I personally think this doesn’t qualify given in context. But hell, that’s just me.

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Ikunochan

I agree with you there. One would think that with all of the natural English speakers wandering around Japan, some businesses would care enough to throw a few yen our way to check their copy from time to time.

Marcello

My favourite was “Happy Mather’s Day!” seen in a department store in Kichijoji.

Maybe it was aimed at mothers that love math.
Burns

Haha, I actually saw this a few weeks ago when I went to disney – got a picture on my keitai but forgot about it. Awesome use of English.
Ikunochan

Loft had a nice (if a bit overkill with the endless looping) Mother’s Day jingle playing in the card section.

“Thanks, Mama, I wish your happiness. You are the only one – Thanks Mama!”

Here’s a link to it, for anyone curious: http://www.loft.co.jp/topics/090413_mama/index.html

Sorry, no Engrish, but I appreciated the effort taken to make it *not* Engrish, to be honest.
Mainichi

i see funny japanese in western countries too.
some people in western countries think kanji looks cool hu?
but they dont know it’s meanings….

so..

one that i found and thought funny was a tattoo “何組でも” on a man’s hand in the us…

so not only Engrish, some use of japanese in western countires are also funny.

つたない英語でごめんね。