She defined Chinglish as this way: Yes, Chinglish is the weird and wonderful result of an English dictionary colliding with Chinese ideograms that often have multiple meanings.
Some examples of Chinglish are illustrated in this article. A massage therapist advertises: "Relex your tired of bady"; a toilet for a disabled person is labelled "Deformed man toilet"; a slippery road is marked "Beware, the slippery are very crafty" (but they are!). "Drinktea" is hung on a shop door to mean it's closed (it also means "resting" in Mandarin).
Chinglish examples
She interviewed Hua Lin, a linguistics professor from University of Victoria. Lin says "if Mandarin Chinese ever becomes the first choice of a second language to learn, as English has been, there is … less of a chance for these Chinglish expressions to survive or make significant impact." A lot of useful stuffs are mentioned in this article, like Global Language Monitor(GLM), the influence of rising China to the world, etc.
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