Jon's Blog » chinglish http://opalfruits.net/blog Philosophy, economics, politics, programming and funny videos Thu, 23 Feb 2012 01:13:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Chinglish http://opalfruits.net/blog/index.php/2008/11/14/chinglish/ http://opalfruits.net/blog/index.php/2008/11/14/chinglish/#comments Fri, 14 Nov 2008 22:56:29 +0000 Jon http://opalfruits.net/blog/?p=131 I went to Beijing recently for work. Having seen this site and this site, I’d hoped to find some dodgy English translations of my own. I was a little disappointed (but also relieved) to find that where English translations were provided, they generally made pretty good sense. I suspect this is mostly because I didn’t venture far from the tourist trail. Fortunately I didn’t leave completely empty-handed and I hit the jackpot in the park around the Temple of Heaven with this sign which contains a multitude of comical mis-translation (click to go bigger):

No leaking!

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