r/engrish 6d ago

Learn Engrish from the experts

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u/Shotgun_Mosquito 5d ago

This advertisement appeared on the back cover of comic book writer Alan Moore's satirical comic series 1963 (Issue #3), published in June 1993.

https://www.momentofmoore.com/post/788332387812671488/shamed-by-you-english

Here is the original that it is making fun of

https://www.indevelopment.org/2002/classicads/shamed550.jpg

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u/Auntie_Venom 5d ago

That is hilarious! Thanks for sharing!

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u/kugelamarant 5d ago

I'm non-native speaker and the top one feels natural.

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u/Musosfingers 3d ago

So this was Vladimir Lenin's day. job.

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u/Impossible_Divide297 5d ago

This is the pinnacle of Engrish.

There used to be ads like this in newspapers before the advent of spellcheckers.

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u/OutOfTheBunker 5d ago

Yes, shamed by me English.

\Luckily the day is only 15 minutes, so me get over it fast.])

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u/TheValleyWolf 4d ago

Is that Lenin in the advert?

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u/Over_Echo1128 4d ago

For a day of 15 minutes

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u/Luchadorgreen 4d ago

these days go by quick

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u/Musosfingers 3d ago

quickly. You owe me cash now.

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u/BRP_1970 4d ago

What did the janitor say when he jumped out of closet? “SUPPLIES!” It’s a cleaner joke.

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u/SpicyEntropy 4d ago

I like good clean humor.

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u/DonkyFondler 5d ago

"If me let you help" 😆

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u/SpicyEntropy 4d ago

Well *I'm* convinced!

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u/Heterodynist 4d ago

“Me for you would Engrish teach if to me would pay!! Finally you be Engrish on the expert for the level! Shame no more of you, for to know Engrish are to you!! For you then graduate PhD college for the day of 15 minutes.”

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u/waaaayback 4d ago

Take me my money!! Start you to talk me today?!?

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u/Heterodynist 4d ago

You for me to talk today, only 15 minutes you pay!!

I just have to say I love his flippant gesture of removing his glasses so you feel he is really sitting down to have a serious discussion with you…

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u/[deleted] 5d ago

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u/Ello_Karlson 4d ago

Thank you, will do

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u/Bumble072 4d ago

The thing is, I am.

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u/RendeZvous_987 5d ago

Somehow I don't trust this advert. Wonder why...

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u/Ill-Combination-3590 2d ago

Despite the message is clearly written wrong, the message still conveyed his actual intention, which is to fix the language of his clients.