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Wordless Wednesday

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

One of the many reasons why we are learning Chinese:


chinglish

chinglish
http://www.danwei.org/language/yuan_chonghuan_profanity.php

An image that's been making the rounds of forums and microblogs over the past few months.

Yuan Chonghuan (袁崇焕) was a Ming Dynasty general famous for defeating Nurhaci at the Battle of Ningyuan, which put a temporary halt to the Manchu invasion.

I haven't personally been to see this one but its located in Dongguan, Guangdong -- the next province over from us. The language does translate quite strong but there is definitely a better way to translate it into English than this!


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