Lao Voices

This would be a good time as any to join Ginger and Padek with funny English, more like  “Engrish” or “Chinglish” postings. I am more worried about using English names for restaurant that might make some tourists raise an eyebrow if they were to dine at such a place. For my last dinner in Vientiane, [...]

As I was laughing at these badly translated signs, I keep thinking to myself, maybe my English is this bad because Engrish is not my native language. When I first started writing, it was very bad; one of my teachers in High School once asked if I was playing with a dead dog, that [...]

In response to Salat’s Ginger’s very funny post “what’s your head” I have a few comparable linguistic confusions also knows as “Engrish” or “Chinglish”.
I did not know people fish like that…

You are welcome!

I think this sign can be confusing, What’s Your Head? My head? What’s wrong with it? Lol…Please don’t answer, I don’t think I want to know.

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I do have to say that Darly is the Queen of Tum Maak Houng, or Racheenee Som Tum, but I wonder how is her Le La. If she’s like me, there’s no chance of her winning because you have to be able to put on a show for your audience and not just making [...]

I was thinking to myself, what are the signs of a webmaster that clearly has become a has been? Let me sum it up for you:
When everyone already incorporated Web 2.0 you are still trying to get past your first steps in html for dummies;
Your site can’t handle Firefox browsers (because you haven’t caught up [...]

I went to an Asian market and saw this cucumber; it’s over 13 inches long. It looks somewhat funny and I asked the store clerk how they got it this big. He was very polite, stopped with what he was doing and smiled, “They used Viagra to grow it.,” he spoke with a thick Asian [...]

Moderately Confused by Jeff Stahler

The Olympics will be coming to China in 2008. So the country is doing some housekeeping and there is a lot to clean up. Especially after all the allegations of contaminated food and products coming out of China. But not to point fingers at the country, because I love China. The [...]