Friday's Quote of the Day
08:47 UK time, Friday, 21 March 2008
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"Please don't cross any railings lest suddenness happens!" - Notice offering
advice to English-speaking visitors to the Beijing Olympics.
Badly translated signs in China may be a source of amusement to tourists, but Beijing tourism officials fail to see the funny side.
The Beijing Municipal Tourism Bureau has hired English linguists to eradicate "Chinglish" from signs and shop fronts, ahead of the Olympic Games in August.
But before the English get too smug, they should note that at least the Chinese have the excuse that it's a foreign language.
Londoners will have no such defence when their grammar and spelling comes under scrutiny in four years' time.
Get Lynne Truss on the case.
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