I used to feel a bit guilty about laughing at Chinglish. But I now realise it's not a one-way street. The Chinese like to laugh at foreigners when they butcher Chinese, so we should enjoy Chinglish with a clear conscience. Below are a couple of attempts at translation by an intern student in our company. She has since been taken off translation and is now in charge of ordering lunch...
Exhibit 1
"Indonesia north of sudan project now is in the construction item of equipment and has left the stage, the review are all construction units to many still not solved the problem of the staff are called "crunching a bone project". in order to ensure that the toc, the general handed over to the task particularly contractor to review and asked me to do our best to finish this job well. In June, review the professional’s tried this way and tries as a result, the timely..."
Exhibit 2
"The report about check that shows every thing at present running normally but the performance in each profession have so many difference and the normally instance is done too much work to remember. So it affect the overall image, the system on the wall and sanitation clean out, as well as part of the instruments and use of the performance. We believed that if we hard working and always change the mistakes in works, we could be standardization, scientization and institutionalization."
Exhibit 3
"To ensure effective leadership by the secretariat and the national audit office and the training class, the participants in each class needs the signature or get the handout in that day to identify . That can guarantee the attendance and supervision. After the training, we can participants from various professional and interpretation of the secretariat in response that the personnel involved in the training initiative is far greater than was at first anticipated. Many personnel are not only in time to the professional training but also active in other professional training. There is few people have participated in all 18 training and the publishing the exam. From the situation at the last examination and to make an encouraging for him, it was all very good for the training, it’s successful and effective."
Tuesday, 13 July 2010
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