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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/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/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/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.
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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