Engrish and the inverse

Sun, 12 Mar 2006 04:34:08 +1100

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

Andrew Pam
The LiveJournal Engrish community demonstrates the joys of automated
translation as practised on menus in China:

http://community.livejournal.com/engrish/164141.html

And Jon Rahoi goes one better:

http://www.rahoi.com/2006/03/may-i-take-your-order.php

I really did laugh so hard I cried, and some of the other recent blog
posts had the same effect, particularly this one:

http://www.rahoi.com/2006/02/back-to-enlisgn.php


Now here's the opposite - misuse of Chinese characters in the West:

http://www.hanzismatter.com/

Share and enjoy,
                *** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net                         Andrew Pam
http://www.xanadu.com.au/                       Chief Scientist, Xanadu
http://www.glasswings.com.au/                   Partner, Glass Wings
http://www.sericyb.com.au/                      Manager, Serious Cybernetics

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