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Contents 1 Chinglish; delete this artical? 2 What 3 Learning Engrish 4 Unquestionably Derogatory 5 Do we really need this article?

[edit] Chinglish; delete this artical?

There is already an artical on Chinglish, which is better than this artical, I see no need for them to both exist. Perhaps mention Engrish is another name for Chinglish in the other artical? Rominik (talk) 22:02, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] What

"I feel asleep". Why doesn't that phrase make sense? 124.180.64.35 12:34, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

"Asleep" isn't an adjective. "Sleepy" is an adjective and would allow the sentence to work. Alternatively, you could exchange "feel" for "fell" to create "I fell asleep".--99.225.57.217 (talk) 20:28, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Learning Engrish

The content and necessity of including this section confuses me. It is kind of about the fact that the focus of English learning in Japan is geared towards passing exams and kind of about what phonemes are in certain Asian languages, but nothing at all about anyone being taught or learning Engrish. Unless someone can provide a justification for keeping the section and citations, I intend to remove it in the next week or so. 21:11, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

This didn't seem to happen. (Did you forget?) So, I did instead, for I agree with the reasoning completely. -- Taku (talk) 00:16, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Unquestionably Derogatory

The term contains implicit mockery, and should be identified as slang. People who take entertainment from examples of "Engrish" are inherently racist. It's basically a short way of saying "Ha ha, look at those dumb Asians who can't speak English". —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.171.0.143 (talk) 12:18, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

I am certain that we North Americans mangle other languages; is there an article about that?

Language, religion, clothes,disability, other elements of politics & culture, are all susceptible to misinterpretation.

< http://eightsolid.com/24-very-strange-funny-signs >;

< http://eightsolid.com >;

< http://engrish.com/faq.php >;

< http://engrish.com >;

< http://engrish.com/faq.php#Q4 >.

[[ hopiakuta Please do sign your signature on your message. ~~ Thank You. -]] 19:15, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Do we really need this article?

I have issues with the existance of this article. Not only does it not have any realistic citation to back it up (with the exception of the R for L sound), but it just doesn't seem like a well written article. Also, it just doesn't seem like an important enough thing to have a (whole) article on it, or atleast not one that is this uncessarily long. Most of it is just examples of various occurances of "Engrish" and "Japlish" (A term I have NEVER heard). Also, most of the information provided in the article is presented in a way that makes it sound very informal. I suggest that this either be merged into an article about different English accents (not sure if one exists), or make the article less like a collection of examples. Pyrotics (talk) 14:27, 13 May 2008 (UTC)