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Chinglish

Posted by James Shaheen on 07 May 2010 in

Jeff Watt at Himalayan Art Resources has returned from China to alert us to signage in "Chinglish." Apparently, the Chinese government will soon be making an effort to clean up their act, so you won't be able to enjoy mishaps like these for long.

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Reply by hh on June 29, 2010, 6:14 am

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Reply by Shanghai Scrap » The Mighty Gross Huangpu River on May 23, 2010, 11:50 pm

[...] Scrap believes that there's rather too much writing about Chinglish in the foreign media and blogsphere - especially by people like me who really have no business making fun of someone else's foreign [...]

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Reply by axle on May 7, 2010, 8:32 pm

If you think this sort of thing is funny check out engrish.com- hilarious

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Reply by mary fitzsimons on May 7, 2010, 7:45 pm

but its probably true!

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Reply by 108zenbooks on May 7, 2010, 5:46 pm

There should be a warning about potential spewing of tea on this post! :lol:

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Reply by arunlikhati on May 7, 2010, 3:08 pm

This is almost as funny as hearing Jewish folk trying to speak Chinese ;)