The idiosyncrasy you point out is to help you change your mind at the last moment before impact, after you have already jumped in a longer arc than you had planned to. For good measure I would paint the opposite-facing board with upside-down text for the extra-adventurous who elect to dive.

Thanks. “Research” is no big deal. Just a click of a button, tempered by due discretion. Yes, I can see what you mean by “rusty”. That ‘a’ is certainly an accretion of redundant hydrated ferric oxide . As long as you pronounce Brute as two syllables it’s entirely dispensable.

Welcome, welcome! Thanks for visiting. And thanks for posting a comment. I must remember to thank Shefaly for that kind recommendation.

Very extensive research you’ve done. I am impressed. I love the Latin for grunt. ‘Et tu, Brutae?’, grunnired Julius Caesar as he lay dying on the floor of the Roman Senate. (Ok, my Latin is a little rusty …)

I am new around here, following Shefaly’s recommendation on another blog.

The Online Etymology Dictionary yields this bit of further enlightenment about Groyne: “strong, low sea wall,” 1582, from obsolete groin “pig’s snout” (because it was thought to look like one), from O.Fr. groin; from L. grunnire “grunt” (which I guess cannot be avoided by most people indulging in the action cautioned against).

My favourite is an old one from when Brangelina were in India. It goes:

“Brad Butter? A Jolie good idea!”

Those were brilliant! I love the ‘Fed on it’ bit. Great illustrations too!

But the real fun in Inglish is in the bi-lingual puns. Amul is an Indian brand of butter and milk products. Their advertising has had one constant over the years – a cartoon girl. The rest is just high-context tag-lines the copywriters generate based on current events and news.

See the first one on this link:

http://www.amul.com/2008hits/page6.html

The word ‘lafa’ means a loose slap, real or metaphorical. So ‘Rafa ka Lafa’ means a Rafa’s loose slap, presumably to Federer.

And see the last one too.

That site is full of hilarious pictures. Thanks for sharing. I have got to wonder what percentage of the signs and translations are done to be funny, versus being done accidentally. I think you may get funnier results when you have poor translations, but there certainly are plenty of poorly worded signs even when the sign maker is writing in his / her native language!

Weird are the ways of the English language. It morphs and fits the purpose – or not but I found a priceless site today which will illustrate other ways it has morphed. The site is engrish.com. Enjoy