"Mouse over NP" > "mouseover" v.

Mark Mandel thnidu at GMAIL.COM
Mon Dec 24 01:33:26 UTC 2012


Unfortunately, as I noticed only after hitting Send, the ShockEnglish site
seems to have been active only from June through August of 2008.

Mark

On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 8:29 PM, Mark Mandel <thnidu at gmail.com> wrote:

> ...
>
> Ooh, and the 2nd one<http://www.shockenglish.com/2008/06/logged-in-logined-way-to-go-softbank-mobile/>looks like a fun site for us'ns. Their page header reads
>
> Shock English ● ショックイングリッシュ
>> Important translations that are just WRONG. Why not let me help me
>> improve your English communications? ●
>> 大事な翻訳や広報が間違っていませんか?気になっていませんか?私にコミュニケーションアドバイスをさせてください。
>>
>
> Their about page <http://www.shockenglish.com/about/> begins
>
> I’d like to take a few moments to explain the purpose of this site. There
>> are already plenty of sites out there containing pictures of crazy,
>> nonsense English from around the world, including Engrish.com and the
>> Flickr Engrish group. But the purpose of those sites is mostly for the
>> amusement of native speakers. ShockEnglish takes a different, constructive
>> approach. This site seeks to motivate Japanese to improve their English and
>> motivate English speakers to assist in this task.
>>
>
>

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