Chinglish

Tony Hicks writes And Another Thing, a very funny column in the Contra Costa Times. His recent article, "Humor not lost in translation" about preparations for the 2008 Olympics in Bejing points out a number of humorous errors in translation from Chinese to English, such as a park celebrating diversity named, "Racist Park."Hicks goes on to explore the phenomenon known as "Chinglish" and provides a few helpful links. The link to Flickr's Chinglish section devoted to photos of awkwardly worded Chinese signs and labels is very good. [Note: After repeated failed attempts to Blog This Photo from the Flickr group to Google's Blogger, which is under maintenance, I gave up.]