I Promised Typos

This entry was posted on Oct 22 2007

Anytime you come across English in Japan, you’re bound to come across something very interesting. Conversation school is no exception to that rule. Here’s a flashcard that came with one of the sets:

But of course every place makes typos now and then, and Aeon replaced the bad cards so it’s forgivable… but this is something that baffles me to this day:

I really don’t know what to say about that. It was written by one of the foreign staff, not a Japanese person, for an article lesson supplement. All I can think is that it’s some awesome joke meant to screw over lazy teachers who didn’t carefully review their materials before class. I hope so anyway.

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