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myLot reputation of 91/100. moreinfo (2662)   ranked 1 out of 4 in chinglish 5 years ago

Some more chinglish: from foreigners' obervations.

NO OCCUPYING WHILE STABLING
Sign on door to toilet on a train

NO PARING
Notice in car park by the Shennong stream (Three Gorges side trip).

SHOWER CAT
COME
NEEDLE WOKE DAG
Items provided in the Wesun Hotel, Wuhan.

Don't leave the roomkey into the locker, if you need open your room please show your room card to get the key.
keep the relationship with the front desk.
Instructions at the same hotel. Still, at least they gave us something in English, which is more than the hotel in Hangzhou did - despite their claim that they "welcome international tourists".

The stand-by ticket window in the airport at Wuhan. I think what it means to say is that you can buy tickets 30 minutes before take-off.


LOVE CAN TOUCH US ONE TIME
AND LAST FOR A LIFE TINER
AND NEVER LET GO TILL WE'VE ON
On the cover of a notebook. Presumably it's supposed to be the lyrics of "My heart will go on" (Titanic song).

Promote Elegance of Old Hotel
Display Metropolitan Feelings
In the window of the Nanjing Hotel.

Nanjing Hotel offers Favourable place to enjoy business, tourist and meeting by means of organic combination of traditional taste and modern flavour, and assembling favourable climatic, geographical and human conditions in development of metropolitan tourism.

TIMELY RINSE AFTER USING
Sign in a toilet cubicle at Shanghai (Hongqiao) airport.

 

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1. myLot reputation of 97/100. mypigbox (1359)   ranked 2 out of 4 in chinglish   5 years ago

I can understand it easily.But for english-speaker,it will cause some mistake in these words.They are not international words/mean.:-)


myLot reputation of 97/100. mypigbox (1359)   ranked 2 out of 4 in chinglish  5 years ago

That is an actual sign in a Chinese supermarket.
The first character means: scatter, spread out, disseminate, proliferate
The second character means: shield (n. & v.), block, protect, preserve
The third character means: fruit



myLot reputation of 97/100. mypigbox (1359)   ranked 2 out of 4 in chinglish  5 years ago

anyone can get the mean of the symbol?and translate it into english.


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