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To: r9etb

In Pinyin "English" would be written as: Yingguowen and pronounced more like Yin-gow-wen, which roughly translates to Hero Land Talk. So if you want an equivalent to "Engrish" try "Yingruowen".

jas3

p.s. America is Meiguo aka "Pretty Land", and France is Faguo...draw your own conclusions on France.....it certainly is easy to remember.


22 posted on 01/18/2006 1:07:15 PM PST by jas3
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To: jas3; r9etb
"In Pinyin "English" would be written as: Yingguowen and pronounced more like Yin-gow-wen, which roughly translates to Hero Land Talk. So if you want an equivalent to "Engrish" try "Yingruowen". "
 
It looks like you need to brush up on your Chinese a bit more.
 
English in Pinyin is "Yingwen", not "Yingguowen" (英文). Also, it's pronounced pretty much just like it looks, "Ying-wen".
 
"Yingguo", means England. "Wen", means, in this instance, language.
 
As for saying, "Engrish", I'm not sure exactly what that would be since it's an "English" word. You could probably ask the owner of the website featured above as he is Chinese and obviously has a superb command the English language as well, while I am only a 3rd year student of Chinese(well, 4.5 if you count the year and a half I spent living in China).

39 posted on 01/18/2006 3:00:53 PM PST by Dr. Marten ((http://thehorsesmouth.blog-city.com))
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To: jas3
p.s. America is Meiguo aka "Pretty Land".
 
p.s. "Meiguo" (美国) actually translates to "beautiful country".

41 posted on 01/18/2006 3:09:56 PM PST by Dr. Marten ((http://thehorsesmouth.blog-city.com))
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