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Still Lost in Translation

More misadventures in English abroad

Author: Charlie Croker  

A hilarious collection of the mangled English found in tourist destinations all over the world

Have you ever arrived in a hotel room and been baffled by the information provided? Have you ever been to a restaurant and wondered what on earth to order? This book is sequel to "Lost in Translation", a collection of English language howlers.

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A hilarious collection of the mangled English found in tourist destinations all over the world

Have you ever arrived in a hotel room and been baffled by the information provided? Have you ever been to a restaurant and wondered what on earth to order? This book is sequel to "Lost in Translation", a collection of English language howlers.

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Have you ever arrived in a hotel room and been baffled by the information provided? Beware of your luggage. In your room you will find a minibar which is filled with alcoholics. Do not throw urine around. Have you ever been to a restaurant and wondered what on earth to order? Bored Meat Stew Lorry Driver Soup Kiss Lorraine. Have you ever arrived in an airport and found that the supposedly helpful signs just make you feel more lost? You are required to declare all sorts of private things. Departure. Bus stop. Car rectal. Please buy your ticket consciously. Charlie Croker has, and in 2006 he gathered together what he thought was the definitive collection of English language howlers for his bestselling book Lost in Translation. But he reckoned without the great British public. Not only was the book a smash hit, it also opened the floodgates to a deluge of emails and letters stuffed full of further mistranslations and mutilated phrases. From a leaflet from the Museum of Rasputin in Russia (which is apparently situated in a house that belonged a pilot fish Zubov) to a song title on a pirated Pink Floyd CD (Come Fartably Numb), the scrambled sentences just kept flooding in. At t

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About the Author

Charlie Croker is an author and journalist. His previous books include Lost in Translation, The Little Book of Beckham and A Game of Three Halves. He has also written for The Times, the Independent on Sunday and the Spectator, among others. His name is frequently misspelt as Charlie Crocker.

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Back Cover

Please not to dive in hotel swim pond. Bottom of pond very hard, and not far from top of water. Please not to crack skull on bottom of pond. If do so, alarm hotel manager at once. Hotel in Shanghai Admitted only decently dressed persons ! We beg for silent behaving ! Korcula Cathedral, Croatia Do not expect on floor. Is forbidden to ride on steppes. Do not make speech with man makes tram go. Person without ticket will be persecuted. Tram in Prague

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Product Details

Publisher
Cornerstone | Random House Books
Published
4th October 2007
Pages
176
ISBN
9781905211166

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