Comments on: A Dying Breed: Funny English on Japanese Signs http://regex.info/blog/2006-10-21/270 Not a photo blog. A personal blog with photos. Mon, 21 May 2012 08:38:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Mark http://regex.info/blog/2006-10-21/270#comment-35547 Mark Sun, 07 Jun 2009 16:47:01 +0000 http://regex.info/blog/2006-10-21/270#comment-35547 About the "in the business", one reason could be that competing shops could create a temporary monopoly on hot selling items by quietly buying out another shop's stock then raising the price at their shop. So maybe they just wanted to emphasize that in addition to simple "reselling". By the way, it's common for Japanese at my company to type emails in Japanese first then run them through online translators to English and send the result as-is. The result is perfect English--with the order of the words randomized. About the “in the business”, one reason could be that competing shops could create a temporary monopoly on hot selling items by quietly buying out another shop’s stock then raising the price at their shop. So maybe they just wanted to emphasize that in addition to simple “reselling”.

By the way, it’s common for Japanese at my company to type emails in Japanese first then run them through online translators to English and send the result as-is. The result is perfect English–with the order of the words randomized.

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