This follows the earlier "Chinglish" discussion here and here.1) The previous posts explored the puzzle of why Chinese organizations so cavalierly put English words on banners, menus, placards, annual reports, etc, without the slightest effort to find out... ...full story at James Fallows
from James Fallows on Mon, Aug 11 2008
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| 08 Apr 08 |
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Chinglish 01 »
YouTube video Around Beijing you see a variety of signs, menus etc with some crazy English. This video is of a model I saw of a venue development, where the labels on the model in English made no sense at all. Obviously the result of some translation software .... |
| 11 Jun 07 |
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Good news to Chinglish fans: go to secondary cities » Bingfeng Teahouse many chinglish fans sighed with regret that chinglish signs, menus, etc. were disappearing in beijing (and shanghai) as china worked hard to replace them with "standard" english in order to polish the image before the olymplics.don't worry! take your... |
| 22 Aug 08 |
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Photos: Olympic education banners around Beijing » Shanghaiist We heard that Beijing has made an effort to rid the city of Chinglish in all public places. Finally the public education banners are also in English so the foreigners can get some proper education too! Thanks to QuirkyBeijing for photos and... |
| 28 Nov 07 |
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China Restaurants And The Laowai Markup » China Law Blog Very helpful post over at the Lost Laowai Blog on how Chinese restaurants mark up their prices for foreigners. The post is entitled, "One Restaurant, Two Menus," and it is on how the prices on the menus with an English (usually Chinglish) translation are... |
| 03 Nov 07 |
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Third Annual Chinese Blogger Conference Begins in Beijing » RConversation Check out the official Chinese Blogger Con blog to find out how to follow the conference remotely. John Kennedy is live-blogging the proceedings in English. Click here for my posts from the past two Chinese bloggercons. |
| 13 Nov 08 |
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Chinglish, homophobia and silly sailors » Shanghaiist ‘Gays’ crack nearly causes international incident, says the Shanghai DailyA CHINESE man nearly started an unintended fight with an overseas sailor when he greeted him in poorly chosen English words. The man identified as Liu said: “Hi, gays” whe... |
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