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I love English translation quirks on clothes here. :) I bet we have tons of Spanish errors on clothes up north, too, but it's just hilarious to think of English-ese as enough of a draw that errors don't matter.

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@MLClark
I fear that, in my ignorance, I've been couting all along. ๐Ÿค”

@mcfate

๐Ÿฅณ Going to reward myself with that link after writing time! Thank you!!

@MLClark I wonder if those are errors that were sent to Third World countries for discount disposal.

@WordsmithFL

Nah, made here. I've come across tons in my years here. Some are absolute letter-soup, just affecting the "look" of English, while others come from basic typos (like on the right) & translation issues (like on the left; in Spanish, that structure makes perfect sense).

But DollarCity does exist here, and *it* offloads from elsewhere. Zero interest in changing core inventory, so there's a lawn section for a culture that doesn't really have them. Big business is hilariously lazy. ๐Ÿ™ƒ

@WordsmithFL

The DollarCity also takes all the Valentine's Day English-language swag that didn't sell in February, and uses it for El dรญa de amor y amistad in September. "Happy Valentine's" (in English) was on a lot of offloaded North American merchandise here this month.

@MLClark Please let me know if you ever see any World Series merchandise that lists the wrong team as the world champion. ๐Ÿ˜‰

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