Sunday, October 15, 2006

Chinese battle embarassing English

Read this BBC story about the government of Beijing attempting to rid the city of malformed English translations -- such as a sign that says "No Entry on Peacetime" instead of "Emergency Exit," or menu items like Government Abuse Chicken -- before Olympic tourists arrive.

Good luck with that.

For more weird abuses of English and English-like words, the favored site is Engrish.com.

1 comment:

Jym said...

=v= Looks like the BBC is cribbing from an article I read in China Daily when I was in Beijing last year.