Engrish?

Today is my dad’s birthday. A troop of us went to lunch to celebrate. My mom got in the car wearing a sweater vest that I thought wasn’t too particularly bad, but it clashed with her pants so I made her take it off. When she pulled it off, I noticed there was something embroidered on the back of her sweater vest. Upon inspection, I informed her that she was no longer allowed to wear that particular sweater vest. in public. ever. again.

Please keep in mind that my mom teaches English to foreign graduate students.

Here’s the front of the sweater vest:

Not so bad, right? I mean, I am not a lover of sweater vests in the least little bit. But as far as a garment of clothing goes, this is not incredibly offensive.

But this is what’s on the back:

Can you tell this wasn’t written by a native English speaker? Oh my god. I cried, I laughed so hard. And we’re talking about the game of golf, not the German engineered vehicle.

Again, my mom teaches English/English pronunciation to foreign graduate students.

She had this on in the classroom.

I asked her if her students saw the back and she said no. And then she said, "It wouldn’t matter anyway because they wouldn’t notice what was wrong."

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