We have seen so many awesome examples of mangled English, I really wish I had documented them all. Today in our fairly Western Hotel, the Granvia at Hiroshima JR station, we checked out the translation on the bottle of Febreeze-type product. They have this product in many hotel rooms as, believe it or not, they still have many smoking rooms. We actually had to look very hard as in some cases, all the non smoking rooms were sold out. Oh, and get this: the non-smoking rooms often cost more.
It's illegal to walk down the street smoking - there are little designated cages for that purpose in the cities. But at many casual restaurants, you can just fire right up. Very strange. The nicer restaurants will always be non-making or at least have no smoking areas -- and many provide little rooms like you'd see in an airport.
The best are some of the t-shirts, where you really wonder if the person wearing it has any idea what their clothing says.
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