Comments | homodachi: It must have been made before "enjoy" was trendy

homodachi

It must have been made before "enjoy" was trendy

Jul 13, 2004 16:59

I was helping some people who needed a native English speaker at the Akashi library today. The room we were working in was surrounded by shelves of educational videos, which is where I found this little gem:

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oboe_sama July 13 2004, 01:38:44 UTC

i've got this toy car (well, more like a toy volkswagon van), and the roof of it says "IS THE GOOD VEHICLE".

i think someone tried to translate "cool car" but failed, hahaha

_sumimasen_ July 13 2004, 19:53:25 UTC

It's things like that photo that make me wish I was leaving tomorrow.

cheesemon July 16 2004, 23:43:01 UTC

Belated Hahahaha!! ^^ If you have a bigger picture of that, I'd love to print it out and use it for my English class. Sometimes I like to take simple Engrish, show it to my class, and get them to correct it. :)

homodachi July 17 2004, 00:58:53 UTC

Sorry, I took it from my keitai so it's actual size. It might photocopy okay if you convert it to black-and-white and jacked up the contrast though...

Any idea how to explain the grammatical error? Sometimes I find myself explaining "if you add -ing, the verb becomes kind of like a noun," but that rule gets thrown out the window in this situation. =T

cheesemon July 17 2004, 07:06:52 UTC

Grammar, bleh. Always making simple things so complicated. I would just teach students the meaning of "Have a nice drive." Then give them more examples "have a nice swim" "have a nice ride" "have a nice walk" until they get conditioned to the pattern.

Then a student's going to eventually say "have a nice play soccer" at which point I shall anime fall and curse the English language.

I think I'm going to ask my library to see if they can order that video in. ^^ Or maybe you can ask your library if they wouldn't mind donating the video to a school in Fukushima for educational purposes. ;)