Lost In TranslationSpoken by over 700 million jabbering individuals, the English language has travelled to all corners of the globe unfortunately, some of it has got a bit muddled along the way. Lost in Translation: Misadventures in English Abroad affectionately demonstrates the very best and worst instances of genuine grammar gargling from around the world, discovered by the author and his intrepid team of researchers. It includes everything from hilarious hotel signs

a snack thief is on the loose and it's up to Izuna to sniff them out

"When you're worried

Kurt Pretorius has transformed himself into a god

like Lincoln

Alan Lightman has always held a purely scientific view of the world

Twelve-year-old Shayne Whittaker has always spent summers on the Maine coast

author of Tall Bones

but also of terrible

the most normal member of the SOS Brigade

where coerced into playing a game of dice by Duryodhana and Sakuni

and quaint fjordside towns

The rich are different