English FAIL Blog

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Wow, that’s an 80% fail…

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

Aaron has a point, unfortunately.

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

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!

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

Where, I wonder, was the photo taken?

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

It looks like Jamaica…

Hahah

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

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.

Well, at least they’ve got the sunshine and star graphics to add an upbeat tone to the word butchery! Tos!
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1) Most road signs are internationally assigned
2) Why would Americans need to alert outsiders that they speak their native language?

…Classic!

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.

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!

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.

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

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

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That sign is probably in California
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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.

No. I’m 30 and I agree.

It ain’t English moron….it’s pidgin.

The spelling is correct for Pidgin.

Learn something asswipe.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Funny that you don’t know what pidgin means. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pidgin to educate yourself.

Perhaps it is Puerto Rico?

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.

…you’re joking, right?

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

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^

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

hahaha thats funny

I’ve seen worse in the States and the UK

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

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.

Nice!!

obvioulsy they dont XD

they probably did that on purpose…

They prolly thot they were dumb ppl!!! LOL

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

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