The Real Meaning of Chinglish
It isn’t always just poor translation
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5 min readFeb 8, 2023
I lived in China for a couple of years back at the turn of the century. Like most ex-pats there, I had a catalog of my favorite Chinglish phrases.
Chinglish, for those of you who haven’t heard the term, is defined by the OED as “language which is a mixture of English and Chinese, especially a type of English that includes…
