Useless phrases drawn from actual phrasebooks by Swedish linguist Mikael Parkvall, from Limits of Language, 2006:

• At what time were these branches eaten by the rhinoceros?
• I don’t play the violin, but I love cheese.
• I have my own syringe.
• I had a suckling-brother, who died at the most tender age.
• The beast had a human body, the feet of a buck, and a horn on its head.
• Because I was out buying a pair of wooden shoes.
• I had yams and fish for two days, and then I ate fern roots.
• I want a specimen of your urine.
• The corpse will be taken to Tonga.

A Chechen manual includes the phrase “Don’t shoot!”

See Enjoy Your Stay.