Originally Posted by
robatsu
I've been going back and forth between the U.S. and Japan for 30 years now. I still get entertained by all the engrish, but it is a lot more tempered in recent years by my awareness that Japanese folks find my japlish attempts similarly amusing. This starts at home with my wife and Japanese-fluent 7yo boy.
An American friend used the Engrish/Japlish barrier to comedic effect when getting married in Japan to a Japanese woman. He pretended to say, in Japlish and in all seriousness, that he was only marrying his wife for the money. After her family stared in bewilderment for a few moments, figuring something must have gotten lost in translation, he said in perfect Japanese that he was only kidding. They all thought that was the funniest thing. It totally won them over.