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Free of Chinglish signs

(Reuters)
Updated: 2007-04-17 10:30

Free of Chinglish signs

A woman walks past a sign that reads: "We Perfume and Make-up You" outside a store selling perfumes and cosmetic products in Beijing April 16, 2007. Beijing is unlikely to be totally free of Chinglish signs by the 2008 Olympics, but the government is increasing efforts to improve the capital's once lamentable English, a senior official said last week. China is littered with wrong, embarrassing and sometimes plain rude signs in Chinese English, examples of which often end up on the Internet, such as writing "oil gate" for a petrol station, and "the slippery are very crafty" -- slippery when wet. [Reuters]Free of Chinglish signs