Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Fighting the good fight, Chinglish-style

In tandem with the recent mass arrests of Africans loitering with intent to hook you up with some ganja ("Hey, man, how you doin'? You need something?") I reported yesterday, a number of bright red 'big character' propaganda banners have just sprung up in the Sanlitun bar district. I noticed a bilingual one outside the Tongli Studios building last Friday, with this priceless Chinglish rendering of the original slogan:


"Severely blow the drug-related crime."

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Heh heh. That's a good one. For me, instances like that would be one of the major joys of living in a foreign country.

Froog said...

Sometimes, one of the only joys....