An interesting thing about Japanese English or Engrish is that Japanese love to abbreviate ,and this does not stop with Japanese.They love to abbreviate English words too..expecially ones that you can't or shouldn't abbreviate.
Here is an example ; (Which is one of my favourites)
After being in Japan for over 5 years I have seen this van on many occasion but have never been able to take a snapshot of it.Finally earlier this year I was able to take this photo.
Does Acid Milk sound appealing to anyone? I think it is supposed to suggest it has Amino acid milk products.. but with out the Amino ..it suggests a very painful drinking experience.
Acid Milk and cookies?
Another example of an abbreviation that should never have happened is the abbreviation of "Game Centre" which ends up sounding like "Gay Say" ..took me a while to catch on to that one when I was hearing "Gay Say" everywhere from children to teenagers .
I was thinking "Geh Sei(gay say) What?" though apparently that is just a more lazy version of the Gehsen.げえせん.
If you know of any other funny examples of "Engrish" please feel free to send them to me.I am happy to publish photos or share news about amusing abbreviations.
Candy News
If you love Japanese chocolate you can now get a variety set available from my ebay store.
This assortment included 8 bars . 2 White chocolate , 2 HiMilk (creamier than regular milk chocolate), Milk chocolate and Meiji Black dark chocolate.
Japanese chocolate is so creamy and really melts as real chocolate should.A lot of chocolates these days use inferior ingredients which result in chocolate that no longer tastes like chocolate and does not melt properly due to use of palm oils.
I love Japanese chocolate !
Follow the link to purchase them.
I will be listing more candy and snack items in the near future , so if you do not see what you want let me know.
If you mention this blog on your purchase I will put in some free Japanese Candy.
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