“On Wednesday, officials from Shanghai's ‘quality watchdog’ announced the accuracy of English-language signs in public spaces had improved 85 per cent since it launched a crackdown three years ago.
“Shanghai's ‘Commission for the Management of Language Use’ had deployed hundreds of volunteer students onto the streets.
“Signs that have been tracked down and removed include those telling commuters to ‘keep valuables snugly’ or to ‘inform police immediately - if you are stolen’. Visitors venturing outside China's major cities can still dine out on ‘gross noodles’, withdraw money from ‘cash recycling machines’ or kick back and relax in ‘personnel crush-rooms’.”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/9446394/Shanghai-says-days-of-Chinglish-are-numbered.html
From theospark.net
The continuing horror here of misuse:
“Its not my fault!”, “There right over their,” “If your child has a problem with math, get them a new computer.”
(If you don’t see the errors, please leave my country. And, no, we do not need quality watchdogs checking use of the language. This is the US of A, where people have the right not to know anything.)
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