(Originally Posted Sunday, September 9, 2007)
This is a sign I saw on a lobby wall in Chengdu. I have no idea what it’s supposed to mean — it wasn’t near a door or an intersection of anything like that. But what useful advice that would be if only we could all live up to it! Think of all the bad relationships, dull conversations, and toxic marriages that could have been prevented.
Food for thought.
October 13, 2007 at 6:20 am |
Congratulation! It means that you meet Chinglish, and you should accept it very carefully…..
October 13, 2007 at 11:28 am |
You know, they really didn’t want to meet anyone in their hotel. Or they didn’t think they would meet any person who speaks English there. Don’t worry, you would suffer nothing, since there was no door under the sign.
October 14, 2007 at 2:57 am |
where did u see that? I didnt even notice~~~~
and…now that is a educational sign when you put it that way
ha ^_^
October 15, 2007 at 1:13 pm |
I’m trying to remember where that was. At lunch after the Forum on Future Chengdu Leisure, perhaps? It was in the lobby between the restaurant (hot pot and David Hill’s Chinese version of Jambalaya) and a microbrewery, and there was a terra cotta display of an ancient Chinese village.
I myself am in no position to give anybody a hard time for a less-than-perfect translation out of Chinese into English. The entirety of my Chinese vocabulary consists of “xie xie,” accompanied by a smile and the nervous hope that I haven’t said it wrong.