[A test before reading: how many can you figure out?]
1. Good good study, day day up
2. How are you? How old are you？
3. You have seed. I will give you some color to see see.
4. You ask me, me ask who?
5. We two who and who?
6. No three no four
7. Horse horse tiger tiger
8. One car come, one car go, two car pengpeng, one car died!
9. People mountain people sea
10. If you want money, I have no; if you want life, I have one!
Answer
Chinglish: War of words[Chinglish, love it or hate it]Supporters<<<Chinglish has life, please don't trample on it"It shouldn't be treated as a cheap joke for foreign tourists to laugh at but as a cultural treasure." "I'm trying to challenge the notion that there is only one type of standard English - the English that's spoken in America or in the British Isles - which is shortsighted, because Chinglish is already being used by millions of people to communicate with one another."
[more]Chinglish enriches English vocabulary with Chinese featuresAccording to the Global Language Monitor, Chinglish (Chinese-English) has added the most spice (5 to 20 percent) to the alphabet soup of today's English by contributing more words than any other single global language source.
[more]Detractor<<<Shanghai pushes campaign to wipe out ChinglishShanghai will start the next phase of its campaign to eradicate Chinglish in public signs next month to ensure an intelligent linguistic landscape for the millions of visitors coming to town for the 2010 World Expo, officials said on Thursday.
[more]Ahead of 2008 Olympics, Beijing says goodbye to "Chinglish""Some of the translations are confusing or even offensive to foreign visitors," said Chen Lin, a consultant with the Beijing Speaks Foreign Languages Program. "As Beijing is developing to an international metropolis, we must change this situation."
[more][Dilemma]Cultural treasure<<<Chinglish can reflect the trend of the times in China. There are many words in Chinese history and culture, such as Four Books, Chinese classic texts that serve as an introduction to Confucianism; Five Classics, a corpus of five ancient Chinese books used by Confucianism as the basis of study; dazibao, the big-character poster; and so on. Phrases such as knowledge economy, and peaceful rise recount changes brought by reform and opening up.
Language's vitality <<<English has absorbed elements from other languages such as Frenchand Spanish in its growth, and the emergence of Chinglish again testifies to the language's vitality and inclusiveness.
Public services require standard English <<<Signs were very important in public services. A sign warning of a wet floor in a Beijing shopping mall was translated as "The Slippery Are Very Crafty", and a theme park dedicated to China's ethnic minorities had been called "Racist Park." Some of the translations are confusing or even offensive to foreign visitors.
[Who will save Chinglish?]When Chinese people mockingly said that hearing Chinglish is like receiving an electric shock, native English speakers launched a campaign to save Chinglish. In the eyes of these foreigners, Chinglish is the wonderful result of an English dictionary mixing with Chinese grammar.
[more]By People's Daily Online
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