HELL GODS-EXPEDITION
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Fail Engrish, as it’s not a bad translation and Hell is an actual Norwegian place.
Oh! Well, it’s good to know that Hell is the place to go to get gods expedited!
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Also worth noting is that “gods” means “cargo”
Considering that this describes the city as “Gods Expedition,” though, it definitely counts as a sign fail of some sort.
Nopes, because as others have pointed out, ‘gods’ means goods. It doesn’t count as Engrish as it’s not a mistranslation.
Still, expedition?
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/expedite
It makes sense for that word to be connected with shipping. They’re shipping goods to, er, Hell.
Hell in Norway, not the other one.
Mais, oui.
And the word “hell” means “luck” in Norwegian.
Fail ^^ Not Engrish. But it’s an awesome sign for English readers!
also a city in michigan, in either case hell most likely freezes over on a regular basis.
Yep…the newspaper here likes to put the headline “hotter than hell” on really hot slow news days
hehe indeed its a place in norway.. same place have have the nice little place to sleep.. “Hell hotel”
how do you think lost english tourists feel when they see the sign “hell 25 kilometers”
Of course it’s an engrish fail, as is about 1/3 of the things submitted here, but cheers for the self-irony in the plaque.
So I’m assuming Hell froze over… as per normal… this year. If it didn’t, oh BOY are we in trouble.
Someone (preferably an admin of this site) needs to post a Comprehensive Definition of What Qualifies as “Engrish” so that nitpickers like you will STFU ALREADY. >:-@
Preas shutting the facility up, and exceed the denotation of merit Engrish.
While it’s not Engrish, I generally avoid such feelings towards the site through a simple mindset.
You’ve heard of jokes lost in translation? I just consider this site to be dedicated to jokes CREATED in translation, which I believe is what the general idea was in the creation of this site. It just that it turns out that there’s a lot more mistakes/coincidences made in non-Asian languages than was initially believed.
That being said, I don’t find this joke funny. Someone explain please?
Norwegians don’t misplace r’s for l’s, hence! not an EngRish fail.
I know for a fact that hell freezes over every winter.
Well, it’s always fun to see some stuff from my country on these blogs ^^
A friend of mine told me about this place a looong time ago after he had been there. Hell Hotel is apparently a pretty nice place to stay.
And he just couldn’t stop making puns related to the sign that’s pictured here after that trip…
Wi nøt trei a høliday in Hell this yer?
Will wi get tø see the majestic møøse?
My sister was bitten by a moose…
No, hang on, that was Sweden, wasn’t it?
You guys just made my day.
Mynd you, moose bites kan be pretti nasti.
Ummm, what is so funny. There is a township called Hell in Michigan.
There is also one in Norway.
The funny here is that the sign basically is meant to say “Goods Exportation.” Oops!
am from Norway so been to HELL a few times on the train
and the cayman islands
This sign is written in Norwegian, not Engrish and it’s a real town – I know because I’ve been there many times! The sign actually reads: “Hell goods processing (customs).”
Hell goods? Hmmm…
Very little to do with customs.
It’s simply the old cargopart of the now closed Hell Railway Station. (It’s just a stop these days)
(Gods = Cargo)
Still a funny one for us locals though
yeah, it’s not engrish, but i guess it looks funny anyway, if you read it as if it were english.
I agree, this is just a sign that is only funny in a foreign language(English). I wander what they would think of some of our signs.
Trust me, it’s one hell of a ride… better than happy heaven ending.
In addition to Hell, Norway, there is also a Hell, Michigan.
I live close to Hell and visit every week… ehh… hmm…
As some people have pointed out it translates into something like “Hell – Cargo processing” (It’s a railway station). Funny thing is they have started welding the road signs in place because tourists keeps stealing them.
I live at Hell, Norway. Its kinda funny, but no worth putting on engrish lol -_-
Oh man, I’d better learn to be more anal retentive if I want to post on this site more often. I mean, I might just wear out my retention stick digging in the hole of useless nitpicking. Oh well. Anyway, I’ve got a lot of kokking to do this afternoon, so I’d better go.
I see it, obviously “Gods Expedition” is NorEnglish. lol that’s where the funny is
And here I was, naively and ignorantly having a bit of a giggle at the idea of God’s expedition – God going slumming on holidays, to check on how the other half are after-living. I could imagine her donning a pith helmet, and wearing a money belt under clothes, and perhaps taking along a slavering heavenly pitbull for protection, and plenty of bottled water and anti-diarrhoea tablets, because you can’t trust the water down there you know, and the emergency contact number for American Express, and a little note to get a snowglobe souvenir for St Pete because he collects them, and a loud Hawaiian shirt, and a whizz-bang new camera bought duty-free on the way in that has so many buttons she can’t work out just how to take a picture…
Surely the answer to the gripes is to vote with your mouse – if you don’t like the content of this site, go and look at something else out there on the interwebs. Or make your own site. I’ll come and look at it (just tell me if I’m going to need a pith helmet).
I think the gripe is that the content of this site supposedly contains engrish while so many things isn’t. People come for engrish and get stuff like this instead. You don’t go into a food store to realize they barely sell food but lots of other stuff instead.
Actually stupid people go into SuperTarget all the time and then gripe when we don’t have a butcher or some stupid thing like that, thinking that SuperTarget is a grocery store. It’s not. It’s a retail store with a convenient grocery attached. Easiest to think of it like a gas station. You don’t go there to do all your food shopping (unless you’re either loaded with money or just plain lazy).
i’ve been there. it’s really funny to stand in front of it, but it’s a neat place.
You lost me at ‘both’
There’s a famous old pic of Ripley of “Believe it or not” fame standing in front of Hell (Norway)’s city sign with a caption of “people have told me to go here for so long, I thought I’d make the trip!”
Believe it… or not!
Eh..In Norwegian yes…but not in Swedish..
*hopes that you r not norwegian* but if you are I got to tell you something.. Sweden is not a part of Norway..plz read the comment before correcting..
I beg to differ. Sweden is, in fact, a part of Norway.
Imagine what you are carrying when it must be customs cleared for “Hell”
I would imagine pretty much anything.
Can’t see two huge burly demons stood at the door taking sharp objects and liquids off you, tbh.
Hell, you’d probably find they’d give you some if you didn’t bring any.
“No Knives? No guns? No C4? My dear boy… where did you pack for, Sunday School?”
Nitpickers the whole lot of you!
Norway!!
I’ve deffinetly been here,
and yes, it is near Stjørdal
Sweden part of norway? someone really needs to install a brain or look on the map
double lame-o
this one isn’t good.