<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/1b2085bf-89cc-4a8f-bde2-0aadc873adc0/3349630C-7EFA-4C45-9705-BAD5619F67DB/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://travel.msn.co.nz/" href="http://travel.msn.co.nz/" style="font-size: 11px;">travel.msn.co.nz</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://travel.msn.co.nz/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/travel.msn.co.nz/img/50398A73-358A-42D4-AFA3-8ED8D0813EAF" alt="Lost in translation" /></div></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://travel.msn.co.nz/article.aspx?id=641299" href="http://travel.msn.co.nz/article.aspx?id=641299" style="font-size: 11px;">travel.msn.co.nz</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://travel.msn.co.nz/article.aspx?id=641299"><H1>Lost in translation</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://travel.msn.co.nz/article.aspx?id=641299"><P> Written English abroad is occasionally cause for confusion or hilarity. And whilst it is admirable for our hosts overseas to make an attempt at English on our behalf, sometimes all a person can do is laugh. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://travel.msn.co.nz/article.aspx?id=641299"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/travel.msn.co.nz/img/F0418FBF-FBC3-4150-BD48-ABFFB0A090ED" alt="Relic protected, no scratch" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://travel.msn.co.nz/article.aspx?id=641299"><DIV id="image_caption">Relic protected, no scratch</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://travel.msn.co.nz/article.aspx?id=641299"><P>I spent three years leading tours in <A href="http://travel.msn.co.nz/article.aspx?id=337273">Vietnam</A>, <A href="http://travel.msn.co.nz/article.aspx?id=335183">Cambodia</A>, <A href="http://travel.msn.co.nz/article.aspx?id=337262">Thailand</A>, Laos, <A href="http://travel.msn.co.nz/article.aspx?id=336467">India</A> and <A href="http://travel.msn.co.nz/article.aspx?id=333554">China</A>, and during that time I encountered quite a bit of dodgey English, signage that made me smile, and wince inducing pictograms. Once I started to photograph linguistic mishaps and the sillier of the signs I saw, I simply couldn't stop! Here are a few of my favourites.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/3349630C-7EFA-4C45-9705-BAD5619F67DB/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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