Inventive Failures Of The English Language

As monolingual people ourselves, we fully acknowledge that we would be even worse at translation than a lot of these attempts. Hell, we only manage to make fully coherent sentences about half the time anyway. But we also acknowledge that a jar of "herpes and spices" is pretty dang funny. Here are some more creative misuses of the English language as well as some examples of English being difficult.

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