Sign Language: Travels in Unfortunate English from the Readers of The Daily Telegraph

by Daily Telegraph

A hilarious tour of the state of our mother tongue, from the people who brought you Am I Alone In Thinking . . . ?, Sign Language is a collection the most inappropriate, confusing, poorly translated and mind-bogglingly bizarre signs from around the world. Few things amuse and appal Telegraph readers as much as the abuse, misuse, mistranslation and outright mangling of the English language. So, for the past three years the Telegraph has run a weekly feature inviting members of the public to send in photographs of menus, health and safety warnings, road signs, adverts, headlines and personals columns – anything in which the language has gone egregiously, hilariously and, usually, unintentionally wrong. Entitled Sign Language, the published selection of the very best images has become one of the newspaper's most popular features, attracting over 300,000 online visitors every week and attracting thousands of submissions from around the world. Now, we present the very best of Sign Language – both seen and unseen – and offer a timely warning about the imperilled state of modern English.

Genres: Humor, Nonfiction

160 pages, Hardcover

First published October 1, 2011

Reviews

[Kev Neylon]

I like the idea, as I do take a lot of these kinds of photos wherever I go.

But it is poorly executed, and the sizing of the pages make some of what should be funny in the photographs unreadable.

[Tim Corke]

A witty collection of photos of signs and advertisements with unfortunate spellings, inclinations or Chinglish translations. You may have seen some on these on the ever popular round robin humorous emails but there are plenty of new ones to keep you entertained!!

[Graham]

so found this book on a relative's bookshelf. ah well, at least I know what not to give as a present. Would have been better as a 'weird knots of the world' a book my dad has the resources to produce...

[James Smith]

Brilliant. Could've done with a bit more information on each sign though!

[Indah Threez Lestari]

730 - 2014

[Jason]

Laughed out loud while reading this one. Just a lot of fun!