Engrish of the day
Found these two signs today and thought I would take pictures.
Blinds in English is plural for window shades.
B as in Bebsi.
Update: In case you didn’t get it, the first picture says Blinds which doesn’t mean blind as in the person can’t see. Blinds means window shades so instead of the sign saying the Kuwait Association for blind people its saying the Kuwait Association for window shades. The second picture, bump is misspelled as bumb.
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Apr 14, 2008
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26 Comments, add your own...
1. Salah | April 15th, 2008 at 12:01 am
I totally don’t get it
2. Mark | April 15th, 2008 at 12:02 am
don’t get what?
3. Salah | April 15th, 2008 at 12:10 am
this whole post? Are you trying to say that it’s stupid to have a written sign in front of a blind community building?
4. Mark | April 15th, 2008 at 12:32 am
No dude, I am saying that Kuwait Blinds Association means the Kuwait Association for Window Shades. Blinds doesn’t mean blind.
In the second picture Bump is spelt BUMB. Jeeeez how much more clearer could i make this post.
5. Patrick | April 15th, 2008 at 1:24 am
lol. That’s hilarious.
Lets go see the Bony’s!
6. Angelo | April 15th, 2008 at 3:45 am
Yeah the first sign should read something like this:
Kuwaiti Association For The Blind (KAB)
and the second is just plain wrong.
7. pocket full of sunshine | April 15th, 2008 at 6:46 am
Wow!! They’ve really out done them selves with the logo.. The whole eye in a circle.. So creative!! And to think that the person who approved that speed bump sign couldn’t have noticed that one of the three words on the sign is spelled wrong, now that’s just plain stupid.. What about the person in the production.. No one noticed? Is it so difficult to find someone with more than 5 brain cells that can speak english to do it.. Not some guy who flunked school at the age of 15, comes to work and smokes 3 packets of “box abyath”, reeks of tea AND replaces all his P’s with B’s.. Sorry for ranting!
8. sfsa78 | April 15th, 2008 at 7:06 am
Even the blind don’t approve of being called blind.. it should be more sensitive and more politically correct.. they should call it “Kuwait Association for the visually impaired”.
9. organic kuwait | April 15th, 2008 at 8:35 am
LOL i love those
10. jayson | April 15th, 2008 at 9:01 am
good pair of eyes mark! :)
but have you seen the sign of shuwaikh “industril” area”?
11. Q8GEEK | April 15th, 2008 at 9:59 am
you should send me those… you know i’m looking for such things
12. pearls | April 15th, 2008 at 10:28 am
is the 2nd sign near hadi hospital?
13. Mark | April 15th, 2008 at 10:35 am
nope, outside mooroor 3asema
14. Mohammad | April 15th, 2008 at 1:48 pm
I have a nursery called “Little Angle” :)
15. Some1SomeHow | April 15th, 2008 at 1:56 pm
brebare the bob corn
16. Mohammad | April 15th, 2008 at 1:56 pm
…. near where I live.
Sorry: clicked too quickly.
17. UncleBenz | April 15th, 2008 at 3:09 pm
Some words that will stay the same when plural :
sheep,
moose,
deer,
and blind :)
18. Salah | April 15th, 2008 at 3:20 pm
I didn’t know what you meant by engrish, so the whole thing confused me.
19. ebrahim | April 15th, 2008 at 6:57 pm
hehehee,, 9ayed’hom ya mark ;P
20. TripleM | April 15th, 2008 at 7:20 pm
LOL…that’s funny…a child would’ve noticed it…thanks
21. A.f | April 15th, 2008 at 8:01 pm
Chickens, fishes sheeps
22. sheru | April 16th, 2008 at 7:15 am
i am gonna BARK my car and go to BRAY :)
23. Shoxin | April 16th, 2008 at 9:56 am
LMAO Speed Bumb
24. KiCKiNgAsS | April 19th, 2008 at 3:05 pm
well what do you expect, WE ARE IN KUWAIT!!!!
25. Rakan | April 20th, 2008 at 10:35 am
blease stand ub, but it in ur bockit, u r bowerful, talk broberly
26. Nour | June 21st, 2008 at 9:57 am
In the Blind Association’s defense… you know the blind don’t really give a shit about a sign with bad spelling.
Ha.
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