Comments on: Lost in Translation: The Wild, Wacky & Bizarre World of Chinglish Signs

By: funnygirl(yeahright)

funnygirl(yeahright) — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 19:31:03 +0000

yeah really, its meant as a joke, not as racism

By: will

will — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 23:36:26 +0000

Lighten-up people, enjoy the humor.

By: Grace

Grace — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 07:06:50 +0000

I think a few people have not read the introduction carefully. It doesn’t say Chinese people (on a whole) translate poorly, it refers to the Chinese language being translated poorly.

Although I appreciate that there isn’t always an exact translation in English for many languages, when speaking another language you shouldn’t just literally translate word-for-word, it needs to be adjusted. This is true when English speakers translate into other languages.

Its supposed to be lighthearted, I think many of you miss the joke.

By: Pule

Pule — Wed, 06 May 2009 14:19:05 +0000

Rememeber that the world does not revolve around ‘English’, at least they tried, for your sakes… if you don’t get what they are trying to say… Tough!

By: william

william — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 15:09:17 +0000

for the menu picture, it means crab, not carp or crap,
it was supposed to mean crab eggs in a bamboo container
for those who never tried crab eggs before, its quite delicious
agree to Jared and the rest.

By: Idiot.

Idiot. — Mon, 05 May 2008 01:50:56 +0000

I live in China now, and it’s not like there aren’t 8 million native-English speakers around who could help translate things. The Chinese need to just learn to ask a laowai to edit their English… especially before they go spending money printing their bad English on expensive publications and signs. They just toss the Chinese in their e-dictionary and print whatever it spits out. I thought they were cleaning this up for the Olympics – but I was just in Beijing, and the Chinglish is worse than ever!

By: Fusion I.T

Fusion I.T — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 05:01:56 +0000

Is everybody on their periods? Just have a good laugh. Go search for Weird London Signs, hope nobody here thinks I’m being “discriminatory” towards the English now…..

By: I agree with #6

I agree with #6 — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 19:29:12 +0000

Just for laughter.

By: Ok..

Ok.. — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 02:11:37 +0000

Funny, but i do not agree with all of you, I think the author intended this for entertainment purposes and laughter.

By: Alexa Gates

Alexa Gates — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 02:05:59 +0000

That was hilarious! But, I do agree with Jared. It was a good laugh though Great article!