Free of Chinglish signs
(Reuters) Updated: 2007-04-17 10:30

A woman walks past a sign that reads: "We Perfume and Make-up You" outside a
store selling perfumes and cosmetic products in Beijing April 16, 2007. Beijing
is unlikely to be totally free of Chinglish signs by the 2008 Olympics, but the
government is increasing efforts to improve the capital's once lamentable
English, a senior official said last week. China is littered with wrong,
embarrassing and sometimes plain rude signs in Chinese English, examples of
which often end up on the Internet, such as writing "oil gate" for a petrol
station, and "the slippery are very crafty" -- slippery when wet. [Reuters]
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