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Problem is that it can be fashionable in Chinese to use English to show you are educated. I imagine they want to avoid this kind of thing happening in the mainl
by ximeng 16y ago
Problem is that it can be fashionable in Chinese to use English to show you are educated. I imagine they want to avoid this kind of thing happening in the mainland:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cantonesebillboard.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cantonesebillboard.jpg
Here is the original announcement in Chinese:
http://www.gapp.gov.cn/cms/html/21/508/201012/708310.html http://www.gapp.gov.cn/cms/html/21/508/201012/708310.html
and a rough Google translated version:
http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&sl=zh-CN&tl=en&u=http://www.gapp.gov.cn/cms/html/21/508/201012/708310.html&act=url http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&h...
- Natsu 16y agoPersonally, I liked the sign that got translated as "Translation Server Error" But there's a ton of misuse on both sides. God help you if you believe that there's a "Chinese alphabet" that things like initials can be translated into (http://hanzismatter.blogspot.com/ http://hanzismatter.blogspot.com/ has a long list of tattoo victims of that gibberish "Asian font"), but there's plenty of the reverse, too. I still haven't tried "Pocari Sweat" (a common sports drink that doesn't sound very appetizing; there should be pictures of it on engrish.com among other places).