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T-shirt messages that simply don't 'feel fine, very much!'

By Bridget O'Donnell | China Daily | Updated: 2011-10-19 07:53

One afternoon when I was living in Shenzhen, a friend and I went to a popular shopping district filled with Chinese clothing stores. We were on a mission: to buy the funniest Chinglish T-shirts we could find.

Anyone who's visited China has probably seen these shirts. The botched English messages on them range from right idea, wrong execution ("Practice Makes Unexpected"), to completely nonsensical ("Play The Music and F*** My Brain Off"), to highly inappropriate, given the situation ("I'm Too Sexy For My Cat," once seen on a fellow teacher at a primary school).

T-shirt messages that simply don't 'feel fine, very much!'

Sometimes, the shirts will simply contain random strings of letters, forming words yet to be introduced to the English language. Others will have actual words that, when combined together, make no logical sense. As a joke, I once bought two friends back home in America a shirt for their newborn daughter that read "Bear of Rush: The Happiness" beneath a picture of a teddy bear.

T-shirt messages that simply don't 'feel fine, very much!'

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