Showing posts with label 怪英文. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 怪英文. Show all posts

Monday, March 31, 2008

Toilet as "loo"

Taken a few years ago at the Henan Provincial Labor Union building. I assume someone just a dictionary and translated toilet as “loo”.

Monday, December 17, 2007

The 21th Floor

Here is an interesting bit of Chinglish / Engrish taken at a Beijing hotel in Zhongguancun (the Silicon Valley of Beijing as it were).





The twenty-firTH floor?

Wednesday, June 7, 2006

Amusing pirated DVD covers in China

Check out this pirated DVD cover as seen in China for the movie on 9/11, "Flight 93." As is the case here, the priates simply construct a hybrid English and Chinese cover with random bits of

English inserted no matter what the meaning.

The first photo mentions that Flight 93 is "Terrifving! - Thrm trlr Boct."



The second and third photos mention that the film is quite jovial and entertaining:

"Nick Love'S follow up to The Football Factory may be the best bloke film of the year."

"Deliciously entertaining. - The Observer"

"Savagely funny. - Nuts"









Fantasia Investment


Only in China would some sort of investment company name itself "Fantasia Investment!" :-) I cetainly would not entrust my funds to "Fantasia" Investment!

只有在中国会有投资公司的英文名字是 " Fantasia" 投资. "Fantasia " 英文的意思差不多是 "幻想".


Sunday, June 4, 2006

Amusing pirated DVD covers in China


Pirated DVDs are still on sale ubiquitously on the streets (and in shops) in China. Of interest are the covers of the DVDs which often have rather poor or amusingly incorrect English.

Witness the cover of this collection of 24 episodes:

"Wenty Four"




Sunday, October 23, 2005

Racist Park


Another wrong translation. The Chinese on the sign says "The Park of the Ethnic Chinese Race" -- poorly translated as "Racist Park."

翻译错误: 英文的意思是 "种族歧视公园."