© Sue Browne 2013
Yangon, Myanmar. I love this sign, and it’s actually pretty famous in terms of funny mistranslations from around the world. Good family friends visited Burma earlier this year and took this photo. I’ve since seen it in Lonely Planet’s Signspotting and other blogs. I think it goes particularly well with the photo below.
© Stephanie Glaser 2013
McDonald’s, Colorado Springs, CO, USA. This completely cracked me up. I can’t imagine running in heels after toddlers in the first place. In fact, I only started wearing wedge sandals and heels occasionally when with my kids about one year ago (and only on completely sturdy surfaces.) Being a geeky English teacher, I also noticed that an unnecessary apostrophe appears with Moms. The poor apostrophe — it’s so misused. However, that’s a different post.
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I wonder what made them use the apostrophe there!!! And nobody picked it up in the many stages before printing. I love the first sign.
Thanks for the comment, Debra. I’ve been seeing apostrophes misused to make nouns plural all over the place lately. It does drive me crazy. I love the first sign, too!
Singapore is FULL of signs like that. Tsk.
Thanks for checking out the post, Rynna! Do you mean signs with misused apostrophes or mistranslated signs? I’m just curious — maybe I need to come to Singapore to take some photos of signs! Thanks again. Cheers.
BOTH! And horrible grammar too!
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Thank you, Paul, for reflagging this post! Cheers, Steph
Two great signs – particularly the one from Yangon. I wonder how you are suppose to get around!
I like the one from Yangon, too. It makes me smile every time. I wish I had actually seen it myself. Thanks for the comment!
Sadly it’s not just foreign countries who don’t understand the difference between plurals and possessives.
I know — at least the sign in Myanmar is a translation and it’s easy to overlook! Thanks for the comment.