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Features of Chinglish
There are three main features of Chinglish:
1. Phrases Not Following Grammatical Rules
Examples: All Children under Six-Years Old Couldn't Allow Sleep on the Up Floor of Bed
Having Fun Prohibited
Care For Life, Do Not Fun
2. Phrases that Make No Sense
Examples:
-We have good rooms, and the price is very cheap. Have three human lives and four human lives, many human lives (Advertising hotel rooms)
-Wadi Strictly Prohibit Remain Sundries (Do not wash your clothes in the river)
-Within 200 meters, notice the rockslide, please is run about by cliff (Keep away from the cliff)
3.Chinese Words Written Using the English Alphabet/Words Using Sounds/Single Word Meanings (Chinese Pidgin English)
There are two parts to this feature:
a) Chinese Words Written Using the English Alphabet Using Sounds
Examples: Jo san 早晨 Pronunciation: jóusàhn (Good Morning)
Bai bai 拜拜 Pronunciation: bāaibaai (Goodbye)
Ngo mm ming 我唔明 Pronunciation: ngóh m̀h mìhng (I don't understand)
b) Chinese Words Written Using English Words by Single Word Meanings
Examples: Boil phone congee 煲電話粥 (Talk on the phone for a very long time)
煲=boil 電話= phone 粥= congee
Big headed shrimp 大頭蝦 (absentminded person)
大= big 頭= head 蝦= shrimp
Add oil 加油 (Good luck)
加= add 油= oil
There are three main features of Chinglish:
1. Phrases Not Following Grammatical Rules
Examples: All Children under Six-Years Old Couldn't Allow Sleep on the Up Floor of Bed
Having Fun Prohibited
Care For Life, Do Not Fun
2. Phrases that Make No Sense
Examples:
-We have good rooms, and the price is very cheap. Have three human lives and four human lives, many human lives (Advertising hotel rooms)
-Wadi Strictly Prohibit Remain Sundries (Do not wash your clothes in the river)
-Within 200 meters, notice the rockslide, please is run about by cliff (Keep away from the cliff)
3.Chinese Words Written Using the English Alphabet/Words Using Sounds/Single Word Meanings (Chinese Pidgin English)
There are two parts to this feature:
a) Chinese Words Written Using the English Alphabet Using Sounds
Examples: Jo san 早晨 Pronunciation: jóusàhn (Good Morning)
Bai bai 拜拜 Pronunciation: bāaibaai (Goodbye)
Ngo mm ming 我唔明 Pronunciation: ngóh m̀h mìhng (I don't understand)
b) Chinese Words Written Using English Words by Single Word Meanings
Examples: Boil phone congee 煲電話粥 (Talk on the phone for a very long time)
煲=boil 電話= phone 粥= congee
Big headed shrimp 大頭蝦 (absentminded person)
大= big 頭= head 蝦= shrimp
Add oil 加油 (Good luck)
加= add 油= oil