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engrish

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..."
by Devick September 12, 2009
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English Language

What many people online (MSN, AOL, Various Chatrooms) always abuse. Either speak English or don't speak at all you losers.

"dey normli speek lyk diz" and listen to Hip Hop, and hang around the streets smoking and acting cool.

Also see chav
Joe: u dnt know da tru
Joe: you cnt handle da trueth
Me: You can't handle the English Langauge.
Joe: y not?
Me: Point Proven
by Cloud November 15, 2004
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broken english

Imperfectly spoken, as by a foreigner.
Lisa have ever went my home before, but until now ah, she no hope one, she cannot remember my address.
by fixati0n September 3, 2004
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EnGuarde!

French expression with the meaning "Guard position". Said before a sword or fistfight.
EnGuarde, ros bif
by Kung-Fu Jesus April 28, 2004
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Engler

A very sexy guy. Usually has THE prettiest eyes, and is always nice to girls.
very easily aroused, and can't control his sexual urges.
everyone loves him, and he's hilarious.
usually very athletic and a total hottie
That sexy lifegaurd is HOT
The one with the boner?
Yeah his name is Engler
Ohhh that explain so much
by shazam. March 18, 2009
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Engrish

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
by an elite June 27, 2009
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Englaland

"Englaland" Is the the original name of "England", one of the Constituent coutries of The United Kingdom of Great Britian & Northern Ireland. Englaland translates into; "The home of the Angles", who were one of the first civilisations who populated England; The Anglo-Saxons. "Native" Englanders are a mix of Celts (Celtic), Angles (Anglo-Saxons) And various other ancient civilisations who invaded Ancient England and "mixed" in.
Person1: "Hey are you from Englaland?" Person2: "Don't you mean England?" Person2: "They're the same thing, idiot."
by Englunder July 10, 2010
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