Dophin sightseeing

May 28, 2017 @ 9:42 am · Filed by under Headlinese, Language and politics, Lost in translation, Spelling

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Headline in the China Daily today (5/28/17):

"Dophin sightseeing in China's Taiwan".

As my colleague, Arthur Waldron, trenchantly remarked:  "They fear a dauphin. This may be an omen."

See also:

"China’s" (2/1/15)

May 28, 2017 @ 9:42 am · Filed by under Headlinese, Language and politics, Lost in translation, Spelling


6 Comments

  1. Victor Mair said,

    May 28, 2017 @ 9:48 am

    Arthur also asked, "What passport?" and "No interception?"

  2. Philip Taylor said,

    May 28, 2017 @ 10:08 am

    Caveat lector: Malwarebytes reports at least two suspicious sites linked from that page.

  3. Bathrobe said,

    May 28, 2017 @ 10:23 am

    Women show off the beauty of Chinese qipao.

    As opposed to the French qipao?

  4. AntC said,

    May 28, 2017 @ 5:44 pm

    That 'node' of China Daily's site brackets together HK Macao Taiwan.

    Since Taiwan/ROC continues to claim to be the only legitimate government for the whole of China, perhaps we should refer to Taiwan's Hong Kong, Taiwan's Fujian, Taiwan's Beijing.

  5. John Swindle said,

    May 29, 2017 @ 4:08 am

    @AntC: The cases aren't parallel. No one claims Hong Kong, Fujian, or Beijing is part of Taiwan.

  6. Michael said,

    May 30, 2017 @ 11:35 am

    If the spelling error were corrected, this would still be a crash blossom: is it a story about dolphins sightseeing or about humans sightseers looking for dolphins?

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