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ESUJ Joint Activity with eigoTown.com
Announcement of 2005 Award Winners (click
here)
The English-Speaking Union
of Japan (ESUJ) and eigoTown.com announced
the winners of their annual "Amazing
English Hunt" Awards. The awards, which
began in 2003, are designed to spotlight English
used in Japan that is amusing, unnecessary,
embarrassing, exceptionally creative or just
downright bizarre.
The Awards are intended to cover various types
of English, from those that make foreigners
laugh out loud to those that use forced, unnecessary
or even pseudo-English language. We would
like Japanese people to consider a little
more carefully both how and why they use English.
The 2005 Award winners were as follows: |
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Sign Language Award
"Please be careful to forget valuables." |
@ a restaurant in Hokkaido |
| 2. |
"Careful What
You Say Award
Relax Place Pee Pee Kaa Kaa" |
@ a resort hotel in Okinawa |
| 3. |
Non-Appetizing Award
"The Dish of a Prejudice!" |
The sign for a restaurant in Shizuoka
sta. |
| 4. |
Incomprehensible English
Award
"Being Slovenly, there is no ginger
it is. I having done now. Until it dies,
the spare time crushing. I wanna be
free!!!" |
| 5. |
What's In a Name Award
"(NHK's) BS News" |
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Only In Japan Award
"Thank you for always using a restroom
neatly. If there was a mat, the point
that mind is with it please order it
to a sales clerk. A restroom becomes
a prohibition of smoking. Please refrain
from a cigarette. The damage of a pervert
goes in a peripheral district and now
plain clothes policeman goes around
it and hits caution Hello. In crime
prevention the staff uses a restroom
too. Please approve it I beg you to
understand my position. -- A store keeper" |
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Special Commendation
"Cool Biz / Warm Biz" |
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For more details, please click
here! (Photos are available)
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