A sign they almost got right in a Vietnam shopping center

in engrish •  3 years ago 

When you live in Asia for a while you notice an extreme luxury that you have as a native English speaker: Every business is attempting to cater to you for the most part. I have noticed this is Japan, Korea, Vietnam, Laos, Malaysia, ad Thailand. If they have only one other language it is English and that is very helpful if you are fortunate enough to be from an English-speaking country.

They do their best, but sometimes even massive companies that are trying to be international get it "almost right" but not quite


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This is in a grocery store and they did a pretty good job. However, I can't really imagine that someone is going to transport things by plane from here seeing as how they don't have exotic duty-free watches for sale there but rather just jars of spaghetti sauce, meat and vegetables, and things like coffee.... You know? Like a regular grocery store.

They were also very protective of their tape and I found this out simply by approaching the taping stand even though I had no intention of taking any of it.

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