A Proofreader Would’ve Been A Good Investment

June 30th, 2008

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48 Responses to A Proofreader Would’ve Been A Good Investment

  1. Anonymous on June 30th, 2008 at 3:17 am

    fp! props to all logged on trolls, picklehammers and spammers!

  2. Vickie on June 30th, 2008 at 4:18 am

    Wow, that’s an 80% fail…

  3. Aaron T. on June 30th, 2008 at 4:49 am

    They only say that they speak English, not that they write it too.

    • rufus on March 19th, 2009 at 11:49 am

      that is a very true comment so I say disregard the spelling fail

  4. tristessa on June 30th, 2008 at 7:35 am

    Aaron has a point, unfortunately.

  5. Christine on June 30th, 2008 at 8:29 am

    many people can speak english without having a clue how to spell any o it.
    much like my parents

  6. Burrill on June 30th, 2008 at 1:15 pm

    Well, really, they say they SPIK English. I’m not sure what that means, so I can’t say whether or not they do spik English. They probably spik English far better than I do!

  7. Laurel on June 30th, 2008 at 1:17 pm

    Surely this is an example of some form of pidgin, not “screwed-up English.”

    Where, I wonder, was the photo taken?

  8. Karen Rice on June 30th, 2008 at 3:49 pm

    Maybe the translator was Ricky Ricardo. He’s got some splainin’ to do.

  9. Sçium on June 30th, 2008 at 4:12 pm

    It looks like Jamaica…

    Hahah

  10. Anonymous on June 30th, 2008 at 5:42 pm

    The green road sign on the far right looks like a US Highway to me…

    • Ethan on December 22nd, 2008 at 4:32 am

      Perhaps it is Puerto Rico?

      • Asphixiate on December 26th, 2008 at 5:12 am

        There’s a shell gas station sign in the picture and smog in the distant sky, also the palm tree… im thinking California, unless they have shell stations all over the world.

        • Canaduck on January 1st, 2009 at 2:55 pm

          …you’re joking, right?

          Shell is one of the largest oil companies on the planet.

  11. raincoaster on June 30th, 2008 at 8:54 pm

    I’m with Laurel; it’s pidgin, and probably a time-honoured construction. Sometimes it seems to me half the words in Indonesia are pidgin, because there is absolutely no other reason I’d be able to understand so many.

  12. wideawakeinwonderland on June 30th, 2008 at 9:26 pm

    Well, at least they’ve got the sunshine and star graphics to add an upbeat tone to the word butchery! Tos!
    http://wideawakeinwonderland.wordpress.com

  13. Sçium on July 1st, 2008 at 5:10 am

    1) Most road signs are internationally assigned
    2) Why would Americans need to alert outsiders that they speak their native language?

    …Classic!

  14. catchthevision on July 1st, 2008 at 2:17 pm

    Interesting that so many of the comments on this massive ‘fail’ are, themselves, ‘fail’ – at least in the land of logic!

    Keep up the great work everyone.

  15. lynedesroberts on July 1st, 2008 at 3:57 pm

    Another great sample of where the entire world is heading for: illiteracy (in all languages)! Thanks to “chatting on Messenger” and “text messaging”!

    Isn’t it faster to write “spik” rather than “speak”? As long as it sounds the same, right? The problem is: no one pays attention any longer and only dinosaurs like myself are still offended by signs like this one!

    • Melissa on September 17th, 2008 at 5:32 pm

      No. I’m 30 and I agree.

    • Mandee on June 12th, 2009 at 2:04 am

      That’s not true. I’m 21 and I am offended by this!

  16. Gurindam Jiwa on July 1st, 2008 at 9:57 pm

    Anonymous 5:42pm, a lot of highway signs in the world are green nowadays. It is pretty much standard.

    The pidgin theory is more acceptable. See here.

  17. Teapot Army on July 1st, 2008 at 10:22 pm

    Awww, but the sign is so cheery! They get an A for effort <3

  18. stuffgirlslike on July 3rd, 2008 at 3:13 pm

    We said we spaek we did not say good or excellent English, just English .

    http://stuffgirlslike.wordpress.com

  19. failshirts on July 7th, 2008 at 6:04 pm

    That sign is probably in California
    .
    Funny shirts that smell like your mom… http://www.FAILshirts.com
    .

  20. Iva on August 30th, 2008 at 10:46 pm

    The sign is located somewhere in Montenegro. It’s quite a famous joke here in southeastern Europe, as it’s been around for some three years now.

  21. You rmorons on October 15th, 2008 at 4:54 am

    It ain’t English moron….it’s pidgin.

    The spelling is correct for Pidgin.

    Learn something asswipe.

  22. drill instructor on October 16th, 2008 at 11:26 pm

    I know this place – It’s the entrance to the BBC on regents street in London.

  23. Dork on October 22nd, 2008 at 9:04 pm

    It sounds and looks like it’s in LAtin America because the ‘i’ is pronounced like ‘ea’ in english. The ‘ou’ in tourist is just ‘u’ in spanish.

  24. unidentified on November 9th, 2008 at 2:48 am

    They might spik inglish better than me although they might not be able to spell it.

  25. GotN on November 22nd, 2008 at 6:37 pm

    Funny how you’re taking the piss out of the spelling there, but you all wrote pidgin instead of pigeon…

  26. Rangaku on December 6th, 2008 at 8:07 pm

    looks like they took a page from the president bush English book

    • LKM on August 9th, 2009 at 4:22 pm

      Nice!!

  27. Leon on December 6th, 2008 at 11:25 pm

    I’m pretty sure it’s argentina. Because of the color of the sign and the sun.. check out argentina’s flag and you’ll see what I’m talking about.

  28. Anonymous on March 7th, 2009 at 12:57 am

    I don’t know what freeway signs look like in other countries, but the one next to that lady’s head looks American. And maybe it’s just the shop owners that are Argentinian?

    I still love this sign though. Even if it is spelled so completely wrong, at least it stands out. People who pass it will remember them as the guys who spik inglish ^v^

  29. Anonymous on March 28th, 2009 at 6:32 pm

    hahaha thats funny

  30. asdlkl on March 31st, 2009 at 4:02 am

    I’ve seen worse in the States and the UK

  31. Webb on June 16th, 2009 at 10:09 pm

    I’d say its somewhere on the US-Mexico border, as that is a US road sign, many countries use green signs but not so many have the US route system and there is clearly a highway/route shield on the sign. The only place that i can think would have a need to explain they speak English but has an American highway would be the Mexican border.

  32. jess on November 3rd, 2009 at 8:58 pm

    obvioulsy they dont XD

  33. deathtripp on November 19th, 2009 at 10:55 am

    they probably did that on purpose…

  34. Anonymous on December 25th, 2009 at 11:35 pm

    They prolly thot they were dumb ppl!!! LOL :D

  35. Jamey Mason on January 5th, 2010 at 10:59 pm

    lol this is soo funny i mean ppl dont even….. :)

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  38. Mike Sellars on April 20th, 2010 at 2:23 pm

    In 2005, a spelling error in, of all things, an education white paper, cost the British government £23,000 pounds to reprint. A slogan on the white paper called for ‘Higer Standards, Better Schools for All’. Epic fail.

  39. me on May 31st, 2010 at 5:27 pm

    of course you do…

  40. Anonymous on October 18th, 2010 at 8:47 am

    Me spelling are var good, me grammer on my other hand are needing fix@Christine

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