Language bloopers!!! (fwd)

[Devin P Browne]

Spotted in a Bucharest hotel lobby:  "The lift is being fixed for the
next day.  During that time we regret you will be unbearable."

In a Paris hotel elevator: "please leave your values at the front
desk."

In an Austrian hotel catering to climbers and skiers: "Not to perambulate
the corridors in the hours of repose in the boots of ascension."

Sign posted in Germany's Black Forest:  "It is strictly forbidden on
our Black Forest camping site that people of different sex, for
instance, men and women, to live together in one tent unless they are
married with each other for that purpose."

On a Swiss menu:  "Limpid red beet soup with cheesy dumplings in the
form of a finger; roasted duck let loose; beef rashers beaten up in
the country peoples' fashion."

Inside a Hong Kong tailor shop:  "Ladies may have a fit upstairs."


Dr. Pamela Renna
Assistant Professor of French
Delta College
University Center, Michigan
psrenna at alpha.delta.edu