Discover Seattle!

General Category => Discover Seattle! => Topic started by: Lise on Apr 12 07 08:18

Title: Ban Engrish: Officials
Post by: Lise on Apr 12 07 08:18
Ah c'mon. It's part of China, it's part of the charm.... it makes us all laugh. Keep it! Keep it!!! Besides you can't erase Engrish.

  Beijing Olympic officials want to ban poor Englissh


 BEIJING (AP) - Along with spitting, rundown housing and bad manners, add unintelligible English to the list of things organizers of the 2008 Beijing Olympics want to ban.

 Municipal officials promised Wednesday to crack down on awkward Chinese-inflected English, known as "Chinglish," and asked the public to help police bad grammar and faulty syntax.

 With 500,000 foreigners expected for the Olympics, taxi drivers who can't speak English - or signs that mangle the language - could be an embarrassment and distract from the US$40 billion being poured into rebuilding the city for the Games.

 [FONT size=1]Read more: [/FONT][A href="vny!://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/WeirdNews/2007/04/11/3982137-ap.html"][FONT size=1]vny!://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/WeirdNews/2007/04/11/3982137-ap.html[/FONT][/A]

   
Title: Re: Ban Engrish: Officials
Post by: Sawdust on Apr 12 07 09:09
OMG. Say it's not so! I hope they don't ban engrish.com. Lil Me posts some great pics from there.
Title: Re: Ban Engrish: Officials
Post by: Lil Me on Apr 12 07 09:13
aw thanks.  I love that website!  
Title: Re: Ban Engrish: Officials
Post by: tenkani on Apr 13 07 01:47
Yup. The latest news is that they're rounding up [FONT face="Arial Black" color=#ff0000 size=7]GRAMMAR[/FONT] criminals and clubbing them to death in the streets. It's a terrible human rights issue, obviously, but it should be a boon for the fake fur industry.  
Title: Re: Ban Engrish: Officials
Post by: TehBorken on Apr 13 07 01:48
 tenkani wrote:
Yup. The latest news is that they're rounding up [span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"]grammer [/span]criminals and clubbing them to death in the streets.

Let's hope they don't go after the poor spellers next...

 
Title: Re: Ban Engrish: Officials
Post by: tenkani on Apr 13 07 01:50
(//vny!://discoverseattle.net/forums/richedit/smileys/Shocked/1.gif)

I is totally humiliated.

See, a real friend would have gone in after I posted and cleaned up my blunder.

Et tu, Brute?