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English is not an easy language
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In a Bangkok temple
• “IT IS FORBIDDEN TO ENTER A WOMAN, EVEN A FOREIGNER, IF DRESSED AS A
MAN”.
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Cocktail lounge, Norway
• “LADIES ARE REQUESTED NOT TO HAVE CHILDREN IN THE BAR”.
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Doctors office, Rome
• "SPECIALIST IN WOMEN AND OTHER DISEASES."
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Dry cleaners, Bangkok
• "DROP YOUR TROUSERS HERE FOR THE BEST RESULTS."
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In a Nairobi restaurant
• "CUSTOMERS WHO FIND OUR WAITRESSES RUDE OUGHT TO SEE THE MANAGER."
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On an Athi River highway: this is the main road to Mombasa, leaving
Nairobi
• "TAKE NOTICE: WHEN THIS SIGN IS UNDER WATER, THIS ROAD IS
IMPASSABLE."
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On a poster at Kencom:
• "ARE YOU AN ADULT THAT CANNOT READ? IF SO, WE CAN HELP."
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In a City restaurant:
• "OPEN SEVEN DAYS A WEEK AND WEEKENDS."
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In a cemetery:
• "PERSONS ARE PROHIBITED FROM PICKING FLOWERS FROM ANY BUT THEIR OWN
GRAVES."
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Tokyo hotel's rules and regulations
• "GUESTS ARE REQUESTED NOT TO SMOKE OR DO OTHER ISGUSTING BEHAVIOURS IN
BED."
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On the menu of a Swiss restaurant
• "OUR WINES LEAVE YOU NOTHING TO HOPE FOR."
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In a Tokyo bar
• "SPECIAL COCKTAILS FOR THE LADIES WITH NUTS."
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Hotel, former Yugoslavia:
• "THE FLATTENING OF UNDERWEAR WITH PLEASURE IS THE JOB OF THE
CHAMBERMAID."
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Hotel, Japan
• "YOU ARE INVITED TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE CHAMBERMAID."
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In the lobby of a Moscow hotel across from a Russian Orthodox
monastery:
• "YOU ARE WELCOME TO VISIT THE CEMETERY WHERE FAMOUS RUSSIAN AND SOVIET
COMPOSERS, ARTISTS, AND WRITERS ARE BURIED DAILY EXCEPT THURSDAY."
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A 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, LIVE TOGETHER IN ONE TENT UNLESS THEY ARE MARRIED WITH EACH OTHER FOR THIS PURPOSE."
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Hotel, Zurich
• "BECAUSE OF THE IMPROPRIETY OF ENTERTAINING GUESTS OF THE OPPOSITE SEX
IN THE BEDROOM, IT IS SUGGESTED THAT THE LOBBY BE USED FOR THIS
PURPOSE."
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Advertisement for donkey rides, Thailand
• "WOULD YOU LIKE TO RIDE ON YOUR OWN ASS?"
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Airline ticket office, Copenhagen
• "WE TAKE YOUR BAGS AND SEND THEM IN ALL DIRECTIONS."
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A laundry in Rome
• "LADIES, LEAVE YOUR CLOTHES HERE AND SPEND THE AFTERNOON HAVING A GOOD
TIME"