Wednesday, June 06, 2007

Beijing Still Struggling With Chinglish

The Chinese have decided to scrap "water closet" and just use "toilet." I love how the stuffy Brit Reuters reporter adds a little bit of his own Victorian charm:

"Because in English, it's equivalent to what we would call in China an outhouse, and is a rather crude slang term," it added, without explaining how it had got this impression. [emph. added]

I'm also glad to see that the garlic mud continues to impress.

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