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Postby MissLT » Fri Mar 17, 2006 12:22 am

I was reading Chinglish article and I found these phrases are funny. Well, they're funny to me... :wink:

-Decimbing path. (Jingzhang Expressway) = Descent.

-Smoking is prohibited if you will be fined 50 yuan. = Smoking is prohibited, penalty for violators is 50 yuan.

-Please come down from your bicycle. = Please dismount from your bicycle.

-If you have trouble ask for the policeman. or If in trouble find police = In case of trouble, dial the police.

-When you leave car, please turn off door and window, take your valuable object = Be sure to lock your doors and windows and take all valuables with you

-Don't forget to take your thing. = Don't forget your personal belongings

-Deformed man toilet. = Public toilet for the disabled.

-Crippled restroom. = Public toilet for the disabled.

-When you across hard you can ring TEL (number). = In case of emergency, please call (number).

-Danger! Inhibition astraddle transgress. = Danger! No entry.

-We can't stand the sight of mattress fragrant grass = Don't step on the grass

-Japanesque Milk Cracker = Japanese was spelt incorrectly as Japanesque.

-Disabled Elevators (残疾人电梯) = Elevator for handicapped people. (CKS International Airport, Taipei)

-No entry in peacetime = Emergency exit (Beijing Capital International Airport)

-No noising and No speak aloud = No yelling (Beijing)

-The too longer, too higher, overweight and the dangerous things are not allowed to be carried = Escalator, Xidan, Beijing

-The older, the children, the deformities, the patients and the pregnant women should take the escalator with his guardian together. = Escalator, Xidan, Beijing
(copied from wikipedia article)

(The bold parts are signs in English in China and the other parts are what are supposed to be in English.)
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Postby TearHere » Fri Mar 17, 2006 2:15 am

LennyeTran wrote:I was reading Chinglish article and I found these phrases are funny. Well, they're funny to me... :wink:


-Don't forget to take your thing. = Don't forget your personal belongings

-Deformed man toilet. = Public toilet for the disabled.

-Crippled restroom. = Public toilet for the disabled.

-When you across hard you can ring TEL (number). = In case of emergency, please call (number).

-Danger! Inhibition astraddle transgress. = Danger! No entry.

-We can't stand the sight of mattress fragrant grass = Don't step on the grass

-Disabled Elevators (残疾人电梯) = Elevator for handicapped people. (CKS International Airport, Taipei)

-No entry in peacetime = Emergency exit (Beijing Capital International Airport)

-No noising and No speak aloud = No yelling (Beijing)

-The too longer, too higher, overweight and the dangerous things are not allowed to be carried = Escalator, Xidan, Beijing

-The older, the children, the deformities, the patients and the pregnant women should take the escalator with his guardian together. = Escalator, Xidan, Beijing
(copied from wikipedia article)

(The bold parts are signs in English in China and the other parts are what are supposed to be in English.)




the above mentioned are for me the funniest.. crippled restroom, disabled elevator.. deformed man toilet... oh man!! :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Postby FIVER » Fri Mar 17, 2006 2:39 am

I like the Deformed man toilet. :lol:
Can you imagine sitting on a toilet that looks like a deformed man? :lol: LOL :lol:
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Postby TearHere » Fri Mar 17, 2006 3:32 am

FIVER wrote:I like the Deformed man toilet. :lol:
Can you imagine sitting on a toilet that looks like a deformed man? :lol: LOL :lol:


hehe right..i can only imagine that.. :lol: , and like what you said in our ghost discussion, "i think i might just go in the bushes",:lol: ,

and i wonder how long it would take a disabled elevator to transport me from 1st floor to 99th floor.. :lol: :lol:

hehe, sometimes, life could get so funny funny.. :lol:
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Postby FIVER » Fri Mar 17, 2006 4:15 am

TearHere wrote:
and i wonder how long it would take a disabled elevator to transport me from 1st floor to 99th floor.. :lol: :lol:

hehe, sometimes, life could get so funny funny.. :lol:


Yeah, just how long I wonder? That's as good as an invisible elevator, hehe. :lol: :lol:
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Postby Lalee » Fri Mar 17, 2006 4:35 am

LennyeTran wrote:
-The older, the children, [b]the deformities, the patients and the pregnant women should take the escalator with his guardian together. [/b]= Escalator, Xidan, Beijing

the deformities?? :lol: :lol:
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Postby lemontea » Thu Mar 23, 2006 11:53 am

oops... :shock:
...so they are Chinglish...
Tai Ni Po Ni is tiny ponny
Wao So Dim is Wow, so dim
Wa Shing Ka is washing car
I get it :wink:
but what is Chin Tu Fat ??
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Postby Dixie » Thu Mar 23, 2006 2:34 pm

lemontea wrote:...so they are Chinglish...


Haha :lol: :lol: Chinglish :lol:
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Postby FIVER » Thu Mar 23, 2006 5:20 pm

lemontea wrote:but what is Chin Tu Fat ??


Chin too fat :wink:
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Postby xinjiyuan » Sat Aug 19, 2006 3:03 am

I'm a chinese and I don't think that the words I saw are chinese words.
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