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Signs Of Panic Over 'Chinglish' In Beijing
The Telegraph (UK) ^
| 3-19-2008
| Aislinn Simpson
Posted on 03/19/2008 4:53:14 PM PDT by blam
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posted on
03/19/2008 4:53:16 PM PDT
by
blam
To: blam
I love engrish.com. This one made me spit out coffee one morning.
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posted on
03/19/2008 4:54:51 PM PDT
by
IllumiNaughtyByNature
(Senator McCain, what did GWB promise you back in 2000? And you believed him? BWAHAAAAA!)
To: blam; All
This one IIRC is actually Japanese, but kinda illustrates what the article blam posted is talking about:
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posted on
03/19/2008 4:56:50 PM PDT
by
musicman
To: blam; All
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posted on
03/19/2008 4:58:19 PM PDT
by
musicman
To: blam
Was in Beijing last week. Amazed at english every where (did not have to press "2" for spanish either)
Saw a sign on a Schewan restaurant (in english) that said "Real homely style cooking"
I bet the chef was not too happy....
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posted on
03/19/2008 4:59:03 PM PDT
by
llevrok
("Going over the cliff, flags flying, is still going over the cliff." - Ronald Reagan)
To: IllumiNaughtyByNature
I actually saw several “Spoony” tshirts and bags when I lived in Korea. LOL!
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posted on
03/19/2008 5:00:35 PM PDT
by
Tamar1973
(Riding the Korean Wave, one recipe at a time http://www.youtube.com/Tamar1973)
To: blam
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posted on
03/19/2008 5:05:59 PM PDT
by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: blam
I love “Welcome Big Nose Friends”.
To: blam
“The travelling experience should be a little bit quirky, and throw people off balance a bit.”
Well, I suppose being dragged off the street, interrogated for hours and thrown into a lao gai is probably not what he meant.
Remember now repeat after me,
“I’m a Tibetan tourist, I know my Karmic rights!!!.
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posted on
03/19/2008 5:07:11 PM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: blam
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posted on
03/19/2008 5:12:04 PM PDT
by
T Minus Four
(You don't put ashes on your head for someone who lives!)
To: blam
My favorite Engrish...
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posted on
03/19/2008 5:12:09 PM PDT
by
gridlock
(If Obama will throw his own Grandma under the bus, how much worse will he treat you?)
To: gridlock
I don’t care what it is, I want one. BTT.
To: blam
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posted on
03/19/2008 5:13:28 PM PDT
by
Sender
(Sometimes I sits and thinks, and sometimes I just sits.)
To: blam
"Chinglish"??
The official moniker was coined years ago. It is called "Engrish".
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posted on
03/19/2008 5:15:04 PM PDT
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(Great spirits will always encounter violent opposition from mediocre minds.)
To: blam
Blam, You're going to be sorry!
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posted on
03/19/2008 5:15:10 PM PDT
by
Mad_Tom_Rackham
("The land of the Free...Because of the Brave")
To: blam
I heard they are going to change the signs to facilities for the disabled from "defective people" to "organ donor people"
(actually, the former isn't a joke, and in a way, the latter isn't either).
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posted on
03/19/2008 5:15:14 PM PDT
by
chilepepper
(The map is not the territory -- Alfred Korzybski)
To: Tamar1973
You could spend hours on engrish.com and i would still put spoony against anything you find there. This has been a keeper and pops up on FReeper thread related to said topic.
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posted on
03/19/2008 5:15:15 PM PDT
by
IllumiNaughtyByNature
(Senator McCain, what did GWB promise you back in 2000? And you believed him? BWAHAAAAA!)
To: blam; Jeff Head
Is it just me, or do you think that the Olympic games in Beijing are eerily similar to the Nazi Olympic games in 1936?
In 1936, Hitler desperately wanted some international brownie points to put on a good face while they were rearming and preparing for war.
And China has it's own dictatorship hierarchy, and they really want to prove to the West (the big market) that they can be trusted no matter how many of their substandard products keep getting recalled.
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posted on
03/19/2008 5:15:54 PM PDT
by
xJones
To: blam
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posted on
03/19/2008 5:19:51 PM PDT
by
T Minus Four
(You don't put ashes on your head for someone who lives!)
To: blam
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posted on
03/19/2008 5:20:02 PM PDT
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
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