Language Log

Jane Skinner received this from a friend who saw it in Chengdu, Sichuan:

This is a full length martial arts action movie (English title "Sword Master"). You probably won't be able to stand watching much of it, and you have to put up with some pretty atrocious fighting scenes, but if you stick around for a few minutes of the Chinglish subtitles, you'll find them to be quite bizarre, although most seem to be just poor automatic translation.

https://youtu.be/ImsxMek2XgI

Happy and healthy year of the Pig!

From Anand Mahindra's Twitter account:

https://twitter.com/anandmahindra/status/1090479366235213824

Sign at the high-end Chinese hotpot chain Haidilao:

From Francis Miller in Xi'an, China:

From Joel Martinsen:

From Bobby Shore:

From Diana S. Zhang, apropos of the recent post "Miscellaneous bacteria":

Jeff DeMarco spotted this menu item at the Splendid China attraction in Shenzhen:

From June Teufel Dreyer:

Here we go again.  With the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics coming up, China aims to eliminate Chinglish, and all sorts of negative examples are adduced.  We've covered scores of them on Language Log, but here's one I hadn't seen before:

For the last few weeks, the New York Times has been running a hyped-up, gushing series of lengthy articles under the rubric "China rules". On a special section in the paper edition for Sunday, November 25, they printed this gigantic headline in Chinese characters — and made a colossal mistake: