Beijing Olympics: China's Language Barrier Pix

Pixelaneous #52

China is ready for the Olympics and the resulting influx of English speaking tourists... are you ready for China's readiness?




Which is one step up from just lovely..




But taste like cat




Here, crippie, take my seat.

[We'd be remiss if we didn't mention that these pix came from Engrish.com--where they have 1000s more!




Great with flied lice





A separate entrance for Hos....why didn't I think of that?

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Sounds better than canned water doesn't it?




Go over there to die, please. Thank you.




Good to know

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Not nice. Some of my best friends are liquor heads.




Look up and down the aisle twice before proceeding...





Much tastier that the grown up variety..




It would be once you start chewing on it




Starbucks should be very afraid!




I wouldn't tickle this one




Weird, because horsebeans sound delicious.




Where every fashion aficionado in China shops!!!




I knew it!!




What?




If th ere's one thing we don't need help with...

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'See you after the flight,Uncle Randy!'




Should be in front of half the hotels in town.




So this is where they all end up.


by RidesAPaleHorse
images: Engrish.com

USA, Illegal Immigration: Se Habla English

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Thirty years is not a long time, unless one is totaling up the societal change brought about by uncontrolled, lawless, winked-at illegal immigration.

Thirty years ago, bilingual signs and "Press one for English" were still just one possible future for this country. "Sorry to see you go, come back the right way" and "Learn English--or go home!" were other paths that could have been chosen--and were not.

A shared language is important to a country that has few other shared traits. One of the glues which has bound immigrants from all over the world to their new host country was the learning of English.

In parts of the USA, that glue is not holding very well.

Possible futures-yet-to-come in thirty years?

Hopefully, "Se habla English?" is not among them.

by Mondoreb
image: tattooedcouple


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Don King: 13 Quotes Without Any Trickeration

Some people claim that boxing promoter Don King has enriched the English language; others, that he has mangled it.

But he has said some entertaining things and invented some words.

And Don King does love America--he's said so many times publicly.

DBKP presents a baker's dozen of Don King quotes, a Don King video and three documented Don King coined words.

"I can't believe that having said what I said was interpreted as having been what I said when I said it, because I said it where I said it, when I said it, and who I said it to."

"Only in America."

"If a bullfrog had wings it wouldn't bump his behind every time he hopped."

"I can't believe what I said about myself. What I said in my own private conversations with myself to an ESPN producer are my business, and I had no business saying them to someone else."

"You don't get nothing from sleep but a dream."

"If you cast your bread upon the water and you have faith, you'll get back cash. If you don't have faith, you'll get soggy bread."

"America is the greatest country in the world-I love America. What I've accomplished could not have been done anywhere else."

"Everything, but the Lindbergh baby."
--on what the FBI was investigating him for.

"Martin Luther King took us to the mountain top: I want to take us to the bank."

"You sign an agreement, you make a contract, you live up to it. You never get what you deserve. You get what you negotiate. You got a right to say yay or nay."

"I'm one of the world's great survivors. I'll always survive because I've got the right combination of wit, grit and bullshit."

"Thank god for money."

“She's (Christy Martin) voluptuous and intoxicating no smear lipstick. Here's a woman who pounds it out and her lipstick don't smear. Revlon should jump on that like white on rice, you know what I mean? Max Factor, Elizabeth Arden.”


Don King in 2006 talking on CNN about President George W. Bush. Say what you will, Don King does not back down in his support of Bush.

The Don King Lexicon

attestation: "I am the living attestation of the American dream. I am the extolment of this great nation."

besmirchify: "Don't besmirchify me."

trickeration: "Don't try trickeration on me."

by Mondoreb
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