Thursday, July 20, 2006

Funny Spelling

When English isn't the first language but most of the tourists speak and read English any place that is geared toward tourists must have signs and menus in English.

Because it isn't their native language, there are some very funny results.

I'm sure they didn't really make dinner from our favourite Disney pals and transposing the "r" and the "e" isn't the worst mistake we've seen.
The Creme Cramel looks yummy. Oriontal Pastry is perhaps shaped like the constellation Orion. Gelly?

After a day of fending off merchants, a very early start and dealing with the intense heat, we were a little giddy when we checked into hotel. This sign gave us a serious case of the giggles.

We foreign gusets find the oddest things to laugh about.

Just before you think that we walked around mocking the attempt of our Egyptian hosts to make us feel comfortable by employing our language, their English puts my attempts at Arabic to shame. I only know a handful of words and can NOT get to grips with written Arabic. We only laughed at this stuff in private.

There were many times I was wishing I had the camera with me or times when I had the camera but it was inappropriate to take a photo.

The only two places to not have a single spelling mistake was The Hard Rock Cafe and a place called The Little Buddha. They also had the best cocktails and cleanest toilets. Not the cheapest though.

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