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Spoken by over 700 million jabbering individuals, the English language has travelled to all corners of the globe – unfortunately, some of it has got a bit muddled along the way ...

Lost in Translation: Misadventures in English Abroad affectionately demonstrates the very best – and worst – instances of genuine grammar-gargling from around the world, discovered by the author and his intrepid team of researchers. It includes everything from hilarious hotel signs to baffling advertisements, such as the German beauty product offering a 'cream shower for pretentious skin', the notice at a French swiming pool which proclaimed that 'swimming is forbidden in the absence of the saviour', or the warning sign at a Czech zoo which instructed visitors: 'No smoothen the lion'.



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Very funny [and] beautifully illustrated * The Spectator *
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Lost in Translation: Misadventures in English

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      Publisher Michael O'Mara Books Ltd
      Published 4 April 2019
      ISBN-13 9781789290738
      978-1789290738
      ISBN-10 1789290732
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      Dictionaries, Reference & Language Dialect, slang and jargon Humour Slang and dialect humour

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Spoken by over 700 million jabbering individuals, the English language has travelled to all corners of the globe – unfortunately, some of it has got a bit muddled along the way ...

      Lost in Translation: Misadventures in English Abroad affectionately demonstrates the very best – and worst – instances of genuine grammar-gargling from around the world, discovered by the author and his intrepid team of researchers. It includes everything from hilarious hotel signs to baffling advertisements, such as the German beauty product offering a 'cream shower for pretentious skin', the notice at a French swiming pool which proclaimed that 'swimming is forbidden in the absence of the saviour', or the warning sign at a Czech zoo which instructed visitors: 'No smoothen the lion'.



      Trade Review
      Very funny [and] beautifully illustrated * The Spectator *
      A wonderful collection of recent outrageous howlers from all over the world * Irish Independent *

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