China cleaning up its Chinglish

[2ffat]

ABC News report:

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=3544799

Any world travelers out seen signs like these?



James P. Cottingham
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[LNBruno]

Etiquette campaigns are afoot to stamp out bad manners such as jumping ahead in line, spitting, littering and reckless driving. "

Hey, if they can pull that off, maybe we should import those campaigns to the states?

< M!ke >
Your right to an opinion does not obligate me to take you seriously.
- Winston Churchill

 

[lisaharris]

Plenty of Chinglish and Engrish at

http://www.engrish.com.

 

[xwb]

There is also Manglish from Malaysia and Singlish from Singapore. Basically English mixed with Malay and variations of local Chinese dialects (mainly Hokkien).

They've got whole websites dedicated to this stuff, like

http://web.singnet.com.sg/~yisheng/notes/jokes/singlish1.htm