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GOOFY SIGNS
Life magazine reported that the European Community asked 1165 translators to contribute the best examples of signs and labels in fractured English they had come across in their travels. Here is a sampling:/An Acapulco hotel:” The management has personally passed the water served here.” /At a Swiss restaurant: “Our wines leave you nothing to hope for.” /On a toy doll’s package in Spain: “Laughs while you throw up” /At a German campground: “It is strictly forbidden…that people of different sex, for instance men and women, live together in one tent, unless they are married with each other for that purpose.”