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Engrish can be simply defined as the humorous English mistakes that appear in Japanese advertising and product design. Most often english words are misspelled with the letter 'R' in place of 'L' leading to the name engrish.
Engrish comes from other countries besides Japan, although not usually as abundant or amusing.
Engrish.com supplies a regular assortment of hilarious engrish mistakes.
Examples of engrish:

-A sign put up during an election reads: "Erection in progress"

-Construction sign: "Today is under construction"

-Hotel directory: "Front Robby, Loom Service..."
engrish by Devick September 12, 2009
Mistranslations in Engrish is done with good vocabulary and bad grammar that are in Engrish. Resulting in hard to reads that are sentences in Engrish. "L" and "R" has no distinctions in Japanese, creating the term.
"All your base are belong to us."

"A winner is you!"

"Somebody set up us the bomb."

"Victoly!"

"No trespassing through east and west gate allowed." (from Wikipedia's article on Engrish)

"Please wastepaper would chuck in bin." (ibid)

-All examples of Engrish
Engrish by an elite June 27, 2009

Englishgasm 

A feeling, similar to an orgasm caused by good English in an English class. Can be achieved multiple times in one sitting by either a female or male.

The feeling of "Oh my god this isn't just another mindless drone in my English class! This is actually good writing." Englishgasms lead to good marks, the more Englishgasms you give him/her the better your marks.
My godsauce body paragraphs gave my TA a major Englishgasm.

Dude, my intro was sloppy, my thesis lacked content and validity, but man did I nail the conclusion! Relating Ernest Hemingway to Oscar Wilde to modern man's whimsical viewpoint probably rocked her world with multiple Englishgasms.

Lord Byron gives me an Englishgasm with every word he writes.

"Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more." OMG so many HUGE Englishgasms! Oh Shakespeare you brilliant bastard you have ruined me for other literature!
Englishgasm by WordN00B March 17, 2010
English phrases and words that have become mistranslated from Japanese for varying reasons - usually due to Japanese marketing types not *quite* understanding how their language comes out when translated into English.
Found on an engrish t-shirt: "What kind of world is it today? It's kind of crap!"
Engrish by ke6isf November 7, 2003
A word like langauge, recognizable only in print since its pronunciation is indistinguishable from its cognate, English. Often appears in important documents like resumes, cover letters and masters' theses. Usually found only after the document has been sent, but also found in many places on the Internet. Users usually wonder, silently, about the ways of spell check and then make an appointment with their oculist.
I majored in Enlgish and speak two other langauges.
Enlgish by jorzef January 2, 2008

An Englishman in a Dress 

"Scotland is not a real country, you are an Englishman in a dress!"