Sunday, February 19, 2006

Funny Chinglish I

Civilized Behaviour of Tourist is another Bright Scenery
Touring the Shanghai region in China, I came across a few signs which seemed to be literal translations from Mandarin... and the results were hilarious. Words such as "civilisation" and "civilised" were used a lot in strange ways... I don't know any Chinese but I have seen similiar results when quotations or signs are translated into English from Indian languages by ... uh... not so efficient translators.

Establishing a Beautiful Environment with Your Charity
These three signs are from Tiger Hill, Suzhou where you come across the Chinese "leaning tower". These were not so funny as compared to those I came across in Shanghai metro and other places.

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