Chinglish

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  A tragically un-funny book meant to be funny

  Humour is a subjective thing, I know, but this book disappoints me. Only about half of the pictures can truly be called funny; the rest are simply... well, non-standard English. I think what kills this book is its lack of comments. Compare it with the website www.engrish.com, where almost every pict ... (continue)

  Humour is a subjective thing, I know, but this book disappoints me. Only about half of the pictures can truly be called funny; the rest are simply... well, non-standard English. I think what kills this book is its lack of comments. Compare it with the website www.engrish.com, where almost every picture is accompanied by a witty comment. Often it's the remarks/comments that really crack me up! This book has unfortunately wasted its potential. One more thing I don't understand: why does the author have to write a lengthy blurb about translation which sounds almost like an introduction to an academic paper? It simply doesn't fit. I can honestly say I can do a much better job if I were to produce a book like this. Heck, maybe I should go right ahead. "Fat water not flow other men's field"!

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  Holmes said on Jun 15, 2008 | 1 feedback

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  The phenomena of Chinglish is good fun. (As amusing as bad Chinese tattoos that Westerners get). This book doesn't have the best examples I've seen but is nevertheless quite good. I have to say what I liked best about it was that in most cases it included the original Chinese sign so I was able to f ... (continue)

  The phenomena of Chinglish is good fun. (As amusing as bad Chinese tattoos that Westerners get). This book doesn't have the best examples I've seen but is nevertheless quite good. I have to say what I liked best about it was that in most cases it included the original Chinese sign so I was able to figure out what was supposed to be said, and how the mistakes were made. So it turned into very good (and fun) practice for reading Chinese signs.

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  Robot-mel said on Dec 27, 2008 | Add your feedback

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• English Books
• Paperback 112 Pages
• Edition: 1
• ISBN-10: 1423603354
• ISBN-13: 9781423603351
• Publisher: Gibbs Smith
• Pub date: Aug 08, 2007

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