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English signs in Beijing
Feb 9, 2007
On the experience of place: Beijing is cleaning up its English-language signage, making sure it all makes sense.
From the WSJ: Tired of Laughter, Beijing Gets Rid Of Bad Translations (reg required, argh):
With hordes of foreign visitors expected in town for the 2008 Summer Olympics, Beijing wants to cleanse its signs of translation nonsense. For the next eight months, 10 teams of linguistic monitors will patrol the city's parks, museums, subway stations and other public places searching for gaffes to fix. Already, fans of the genre are mourning the end of an era...
See also: engrish.com
(Thanks, Anne)
