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'Non-standard' English 2
 
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David Beckham (after visiting a school): "It was totally different to what I was teached when I was at school."

At Orly airport, Paris:

Diplomates

Perhaps Diplomates are diplomats that you are friendly with.

From a fancy restaurant in Brighton:

deserts

Rhubarb jalousie with crème Anglaise

Gooseberry fool with lime sherbet etc.

And not a Gobi or Sahara in sight...

On a Chinese recruitment website: We do not care where are you from, but your oral english must be fluently.

On the British Airways website: Error! We are unable to display your booking as all flights have been flown.

From a Slovak website: SERVICE OFFER - We are not the best, but we are the others.

(You have to admire their honesty, if not their English)

Seen on the internet. Someone wants people to write for his website:

Qualifications: No big fancy degree’s are needed for this. You do need to have a solid grasp of English and a medium level of grammer.

As he clearly doesn't....

On a Czech hotel website:

The hotel offers to its guests: saloon ( for 15 persons) congerss room ( for 30-40 poeple ) for a bussines talks.

If their English is a reflection of their congerss room...

Below we can see the delights awaiting the customers of a fish and chip shop in Cornwall. Jamie Oliver would turn in his grave - if he were dead. Click on the image to see a larger version.

menu's

to rspected sir,

my name is m_____ k________ ,i m student of luminy and i m learning international business programme and i m looking for job for english teacher . i done my bachelor degree in chemical engineering. i passed out TOEFL exam vth 573 marks i can teach english grammer.

His students would probably pass out if he were given a job...

You might expect a simple mistake like this in a small provincial museum but the one below was outside notre dame cathedral in Paris.

notre dame sign

greenhouse gases
In the sign above, there is nothing wrong with the English, but the first question is, as is to be expected, sidestepped, but the second question, a pretty dumb question anyway, is just completely ignored... Click on the image if you can't read it.
More non-standard English from Peru, France and England.