Woulda coulda shoulda
I really like the street wisdom of Loesje that adorns Dutch cities with posters of witty wisdom in Dutch and every now and again in English. However, their English is very often Dunglish, maybe even on purpose, but I have a feeling that they don’t realize their English is wrong. I can imagine this adds to the humour for the Dutch, but I think it’s kind of sloppy and takes away from the joke. Again, love you guys, but you really should get some native help or cut the English out altogether.
“If only a microcredit generated (caused?) a microcrisis”. Even corrected it doesn’t have any punch.
“If only microcredits generated (caused?) microcrises”. That’s just plain ugly.
That’s a lot of mistakes for one wee poster.
