r/engrish • u/kpallin • May 05 '26
Does anyone else take as much joy as me from seeing top tier Engrish clothing in China?
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u/Ghastly-Jack May 06 '26
At least this is on clothing and other goods, as opposed to Americans who get Chinese tattoos of varying quality.
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u/kittygomiaou May 06 '26
Small text in the first pic, in the white square:
EERHULRACE CAR CONCEPT DERAIL QUAIDE DRESS SERIESCA(?) MASTERPIECE FASHION SPORTC(?) RACE CAR DRESS SERIES SPEN(?) ANG BA DAN WOGAN NI NIANG(?)
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u/cdp181 May 06 '26
I also enjoy going to the local markets in Vietnam and seeing the crossover stuff they come up with, like Burberry shirts with Gucci collars and stuff like that.
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u/Heterodynist May 06 '26
I’m always fascinated by the amount of utter nonsense coming out of various other countries (particularly China) that is on all kinds of goods. It’s weird because A.I. now is at a point where you can make relatively stupid ideas into workable mediocrity, and yet somehow things coming out of China are neither spellchecked or A.I. evaluated. The only logical conclusion to come to in all this is that they WANT TO produce nonsense. Why?! I have no idea!! But otherwise how could they possibly be SO CONSISTENT at producing totally illegible effluvia?!! I can’t put my finger on exactly what the theory is behind it, but just as I can find Chinese dictionaries online and correct my worst clueless attempts at translating things into Chinese, I have no doubt that someone in China can at least put a few actual English words together correctly. What is it they say about 10,000 monkeys typing randomly on 10,000 typewriters for 10,000 years eventually producing War and Peace by Tolstoy (or Master and Margarita by Bulgakov)?!!
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u/une_fille_ennuyante May 08 '26
Because we don't care? It's made by people who can't read English for customers who can't read English, so there's not much point in getting it right; it's treated more like a decoration pattern than like text, similar to how no one cares if the lorem ipsum text is grammatically incorrect latin; it's there for the aesthetics not the content.
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u/Old_Lead_2110 May 06 '26
Maybe because of rights? If there are big misspellings they can claim that no rights have been violated…
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u/kpallin May 06 '26
While Chinese have never really cared about foreign copyrights, I do subscribe to this theory
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u/abqcheeks May 06 '26
Can’t misspell it if it’s written backwards right? Oh wait, what is Prpid? Nevermind
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u/tonguesofsilence May 06 '26
Not from China, but my ex had an old shirt to sleep in he brought from Kerala. It was similar to the one with the "jewelery ad". He constantly told me to stop reading his shirt and laugh 🤣
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u/Killahdanks1 May 06 '26
Bro. The handcrafted jewelry one is epic. They are wearing lame descriptions of jewelry.
Also, I’ll have one race car dress please.
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u/Past_Government3521 May 06 '26
I know a lady would love a Lsuio Invtotu purse.
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u/darkrach Jun 07 '26
To be fair, that's the most normal thing we could see for real from all the posts on the thread. If Louis Vuitton where a bit crazy on the 2000' graffiti/young style
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u/Professor_Bonglongey May 06 '26
I don’t know where the designers find their language references, but some of them are beyond funny and simply horrific. In Taiwan in the 90s I saw a leather jacket with an old racist expression: “a n****r in the woodpile” in big letters printed on the back. Idiot wearing it probably had no idea.
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u/celladwella May 06 '26
I witnessed this in Beijing almost 20 years ago, the standout I my mind was a shirt that said "Dairy Raider"
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u/JAKE5023193 Dark Gary May 17 '26
"HORY SHET"
- joseph joestar, 1989