Tuesday, July 8, 2008

East Is West and West Is East

Because the company I work for imports its products from China, the Chinese economy is of utmost interest to us.
Incidentally, I've become very familiar with its economy of words, better known as Chinglish.
Some examples:


Here is an article that makes some sense of this phenomenon:

deformed man lavatory

The Olympics are upon us. Brush up on your Chinglish.

3 comments:

Ambiguous Q. Thunderwing said...

Growing

Looks like by 2035 we'll be endearingly fumbling with Englese.

Ms. Feldman said...

Dream came before I know!
Okay!

joshua francis said...

My favorite part of being an American is the little rush of patriotic entitlement I get every time I fill out an online form and 'USA' sits atop the country list, brazenly defying all alphabetical order. I'll miss that.