Here is some more excellent Chinglish I’ve found in our travels.
Chinglish Time Again!
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Walking with Pikachu
I’m not sure how it started. Maybe I just thought it was cute the way my Taiwanese boyfriend pronounced Pikachu (pi-ka-que), but for the past five years, every time one of sees a Pikachu doll, toy, game etc we have to talk about it and point it out, and end
Here We Go Again!
Bored, playing around on my computer the other day, I started looking through old bookmarks on my browser. Since I have been an Apple user for a long time, whenever I get a new device or computer, it copies everything over automatically and I have bookmarked websites I haven’t looked
They’re nowhere near as bad as some others I’ve seen. Some examples I’ve seen have been quite beautiful, one of them said “Let us grow happily with flowers and grass”. I’m not entirely sure what it intended to say but I like the way it sounds.
I think they’re trying to do away with Chinglish though and I must admit, I can see where they’re coming from. It doesn’t look particularly professional but it does have so much charm. Personally, I’ll miss it. They’ll likely bring in a translation agency, that’s the only way you can guarantee a translation’s accuracy.
Doing a way with Chinglish was a mistake that chinese authorities were bound to make. This is because Chinglish exists throughout Chinese Culture and Society. Chinglish is the only way that Chinese language and English can be intertwined