The big squat
The following photograph has been in my draft folder for about five years:
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The following photograph has been in my draft folder for about five years:
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This is "Konglish", not "Kongish". We just finished studying the latter, which is Hong Kong style English, in this post, and surveyed other varieties of Asian English in this post, including Konglish,which is the subject of the present post.
Konglish is Korean-style English, and it seems to be thriving.
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Jim Millward sent in this photograph of a sign at "one of those Korean-run lunch buffet deli places (this in Bethesda MD)":
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Jackie and Mimi, Toni Tan's daughters, spotted two interesting products at the Asian supermarket near their home.
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Alissa Rubin, "Coping? Students in France just aren't", NYT 6/23/2015:
There is no easy translation or even a firm concept of the word “coping” in French, so when it turned up last week in a question on the national exam to earn a high school degree, it set off a fracas among the 350,000 or so students who took the test.
So far, about 12,000 of them have signed a petition posted four days ago on a social media site, change.org, arguing that the question was “too difficult.”
The word appeared in the English reading comprehension section of this year’s baccalaureate general exam, which requires an intermediate level of proficiency in two foreign languages.
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Back in 2009, somebody (unfortunately I forget who it was) sent me this photograph of a sign in Beijing:
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Menu from a restaurant on Wudaoying Hutong 五道营胡同 near Yonghe Gong 雍和宫 (Lama Temple) that left James Bradbury completely baffled last summer:
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Here is an interesting picture that Francois Dube took today in a cakeshop in Yinchuan, capital of the Ningxia Hui (Muslim) Autonomous Region, People's Republic of China:
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Tom Hancock sent in this photograph of a poster seen yesterday outside a Shaanxi restaurant just inside Beijing's third ring road:
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Multilingual sign near the entrance to a toilet at the Cologne Main train station, posted by Simon on douban, via Joel Martinsen:
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David Rowe took this photo of a sign on a market stall in Sydney Chinatown:
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Nathan Hopson found this in a public bathroom at the Nagoya prefectural children's center last Monday:
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