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Given that this site is a basically a dictionary, a slang one at that, I decided to include a comment that came to me through my spam. As a blogger, there are many blog sites that post spam messages from their blog site, so that when I include them they get a backlink to their site and better ranking through search engines.

I usually don’t post them but when I saw this one, written in a largely unintelligible form of Chinglish, I thought they deserved the inclusion, for their effort in translating Chinese to English.

This is the first one:-

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This was another recent spam posting from the same site

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Reasons for bizarre Chinglish translations are: electronic translator without postscript notes, outdated English- Chinese dictionaries, and translating word for word including translation of common Chinese idioms into English, like this Chinese idiom “to point at a deer and call it a horse”.

I challenge any one of you to be able to decipher the true meaning of their message. But perhaps in the meantime, you’ll laugh so much that you’ll forget the job at hand, and get nowhere.

If you have any Chinglish signs please send them to us.

Just before I go I leave with you this wise old Chinese proverb

“Confucius say, He who go to bed with itchy bottom, wake up with smelly finger” or in French “Qui se couche avec un cul qui gratte, se reveille avec un doigt qui pue”