Lost in translation or a threat of terror?
By Wang Zhuoqiong and Todd Balazovic | China Daily | Updated: 2010-05-28 07:55
Words can mean different things for speakers from abroad
BEIJING - When Chinese student Du Juan brought her American boyfriend home two years ago to use the toilet, her Japanese roommate became so upset that she shouted in English: "I hate you."
Du, then 21 and an undergraduate at Bridgewater State College in Massachusetts, was shocked. So was her boyfriend.
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