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Here Speeching American: A Very Strange Guide to English as It Is Garbled Around the World
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The celebrated authors of the perennial bestseller The 776 Stupidest Things Ever Said set the typical travel guide squarely on its head–taking you from the airport to the hotel, from sightseeing to dining out–by using 100 percent real examples of fractured English as spoken and posted abroad. Here are a couple of examples:
Feel like shopping?
We have no good things to sell.
shop sign, Lovina Beach, Bali
Wondering what to wear?
A sports jacket may be worn to dinner, but no trousers.
In a French hotel brochure
The book is totally hysterical and a must-read!!
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