The Chinese recognize that foreign tourists and business travellers are an important source of income, so more and more places include English translations on their Chinese signs. Unfortunately, only few Chinese are fluent in English, so the translations are not always correct. In fact, many of them are downright incomprehensible. Language Log has a growing number of examples of Chinglish, like this one, this one and this one.
Their latest example, borrowing from peer-see.com, provides little hope of the translations improving any time soon. It shows a set of blocks to help toddlers learn English, with pictures accompanied by the Chinese and English words. Kind of, anyway:
For the full set, head over to the peer-see.com post.
