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Chinglish and can
* Exterminate Capitalism Lobster Package was the Chinglish rendering of Taotie longxia can ( 饕餮龍蝦餐 " gourmand lobster meal ") on a menu mentioned by the New York Times.

Chinglish and be
Some peculiar Chinese English cannot be labeled Chinglish because it is grammatically correct, and Mair calls this emerging dialect " Xinhua English or New China News English ", based on the Xinhua News Agency.
Chinglish may have influenced some English expressions that are " calques " or " loan translations " from Chinese Pidgin English, for instance, " lose face " derives from diulian 丟臉 " lose face ; be humiliated.
The Global Language Monitor predicts it will thrive, and estimates that roughly 20 percent of new English words derive from Chinglish, for instance, shanzhai ( 山寨 ; literally " mountain stronghold ; mountain village ") meaning " counterfeit consumer goods ; things done in parody " — Huang Youyi, president of the China Internet Information Center, predicts that linguistic purism could be damaged by popular Chinese words of English origin ( such as OK and LOL ).

Chinglish and with
Hwang's work for the stage includes FOB, The Dance and the Railroad, Family Devotions, The House of Sleeping Beauties ( adapted from Yasunari Kawabata's novella House of the Sleeping Beauties ), The Sound of a Voice, As the Crow Flies, Rich Relations, M. Butterfly, Bondage, Face Value, Trying to Find Chinatown, Bang Kok, Golden Child, an adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's Peer Gynt ( co-written with Stephan Muller ), the Humana Festival T ( ext ) Shirt play Merchandising, Jade Flowerpots and Bound Feet, the children's play Tibet Through the Red Box ( based upon Peter Sis ' book ), The Great Helmsman, Yellow Face, A Very DNA Reunion, and Chinglish.
Chinglish commonly refers to a mixture of English with Modern Standard Mandarin, but it occasionally refers to mixtures with Cantonese, Shanghainese and Taiwanese Hokkien.
Chinglish contrasts with some related terms.
Group 3 with English-speaking teachers ( both native and nonnative speakers ) judged the comparative clarity of English and Chinglish word pairs: more clear for 42. 3 % of the Chinglish and 5. 6 % of the English, equally clear for 25. 4 % of the Chinglish-English pairs, and neither clear for 19. 7 %.
On October 11, 2011, a Broadway play written by David Henry Hwang named Chinglish, which deals heavily with the themes of Chinese and American ( mis ) communication, began performances at the Longacre Theatre.
Two comparable Chinglish mistranslations of gān " dry " as gàn " do ; fuck " are: The shrimp fucks the cabbage for Xiāgān chǎo báicài (), and fuck the empress mistakes gàn hòu () for gānhòu (), with hòu () as the Simplified form of hòu ().

Chinglish and English
Chinglish refers to spoken or written English language that is influenced by the Chinese language.
The term " Chinglish " is commonly applied to ungrammatical or nonsensical English in Chinese contexts, and may have pejorative or deprecating connotations, reflecting the attitudes of those who apply the label.
The English word Chinglish is a portmanteau of Chinese and English.
This dictionary cites the earliest recorded usage of Chinglish ( noted as a jocular term ) in 1957 and of Chinese English in 1857.
" Instrumental Chinglish is actually intended to convey information to English speakers.
Ornamental Chinglish is born of the fact that English is the lingua franca of coolness.
In 2007, the Beijing Speaks Foreign Languages Program ( BSFLP ) reported they had, " worked out 4, 624 pieces of standard English translations to substitute the Chinglish ones on signs around the city ", for instance, " Be careful, road slippery " instead of " To take notice of safe: The slippery are very crafty.
Specifying Chinglish to mean " Chinese words literally translated into English ", an experiment in linguistic clarity found that mathematical terms are more readily understandable in Chinglish than English.
For example, compare the semantic clarity of English axiom, Chinese gongli 公理, and Chinglish ( literal translation ) " universal-principle "; median, zhongshu 中数, and " centre-number "; or trapezoid, tixing 梯形, and " ladder-figure ".

Chinglish and such
Terms such as Japanglish, Japlish or Janglish for Japan, Konglish for Korea, and Chinglish for China are more specific terms for Engrish.
Soon after the International Olympic Committee selected Beijing in 2001, the Beijing Tourism Bureau established a tipster hotline for Chinglish errors on signs, such as emergency exits at the Beijing airport reading " No entry on peacetime ".
" Reporting from Beijing, Ben Macintyre lamented the loss of signs like " Show Mercy to the Slender Grass " because, " many of the best examples of Chinglish are delightful, reflecting the inventiveness that results when two such different languages collide ".

Chinglish and from
" Some sources claim " long time no see " is a Chinglish calque from hǎojiǔbújiàn 好久不見 " long time no see ".
Victor Mair noted the fuck translation of gān () was " fairly ubiquitous in China ", and discovered this complicated Chinglish error resulted from machine translation software misinterpreting gānguǒ () as gàn guǒ ().

Chinglish and ),
* Foreword to The Translator's Guide to Chinglish by Joan Pinkham ( Beijing, Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press 2000 ), mentioning Sol Adler ( dead link )

Chinglish and Engrish
* Engrish or Chinglish
* Engrish. com Chinglish Collection

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`` That is, if we can be sure this is Colcord's money '' --
It'll probably be at least an hour or two before I can check back with you.
Even as I said it I realized that an education can be invaluable.
Within their confines, moreover, technological and industrial growth has proceeded at an accelerated pace, thus increasing the cornucopia from which material wants can be satisfied.
And no messages can be transmitted on these circuits until senders and receivers authenticate in advance, by special codes, that the messages actually come from their purported sources.
Additional codes can be used to challenge and counterchallenge the authentications.
Nobody can be absolutely certain of the answers.
All can be connected with the gold circuit from their homes.
The box is internally wired so the door can never be opened without setting off a screeching klaxon ( `` It's real obnoxious '' ).
Unless all gadgets are properly operated -- and the wires and seals from the handles removed first -- no damage can be done.
I do not know if such a way of life can come to be a self-conscious challenge, but I suspect that it can.
As his disciples boast, even though his emphasis is elsewhere, Faulkner does show his awareness of the changing order of the South quite keenly, as can be proven by a quick recalling of his Sartoris and Snopes families.
An order can be chanced rather than chosen, and this approach produces an experience that is `` free and discovered rather than bound and remembered ''.
And any sequence can not only change its positions in the work but can even be eliminated from it altogether.
When it comes to this, I shall prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty -- to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, without the base alloy of hypocrisy '' ( His emphasis )
Something of this can be learned from `` The Way To The Churchyard '' ( 1901 ), an anecdote about an old failure whose fit of anger at a passing cyclist causes him to die of a stroke or seizure.
Similarly experience itself can be conventionalized so that people react to certain preconceived clues for behavior without awareness of the vitality of their experiential field.
When words can be used in a more fresh and primitive way so that they strike with the force of sights and sounds, when tones of sound and colors of paint and the carven shape all strike the sensibilities with an undeniable force of data in and of themselves, compelling the observer into an attitude of attention, all this imitates the way experience itself in its deepest character strikes upon the door of consciousness and clamors for entrance.
it can be changed ; ;
You've already sent your daughter to Miss X's select academy for girls and your son to Mr. Y's select academy for boys, and you can be as liberal as you please with strict impunity.
In scope and power it can only be compared to Tolstoy's War And Peace.
However, for convenience we will stick to the idea that information can be classified according to Table 1.
Since the hazards of poor communication are so great, p can be justified as a habitable site only on the basis of unusual productivity such as is made available by a waterfall for milling purposes, a mine, or a sugar maple camp.

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