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I was totally fascinated by this crazy bit of Chinglish in 1992 — when I was still just a kid at 10. The family got me to a dinner with friends. I forgot everything — except for the unforgettable Chinglish on the comment card. It started off with this immortal bit of Chinglish: “WELCOME TO OUR GUESTS!“…
It’s late on 14 July 2011… and let’s see… that’s 2,054 cases of Chinglish I’ve spotted since that fair bit of Chinglish. Including the unforgettable “TO TAKE NOTICE OF SAFE: THE SLIPPERY ARE VERY CRAFTY” and their Chinglish ilk like that. It got me fascinated. It got my media friends addicted. It got the Chinese Publishing House of Electronics Industry totally sold. They helped me out with a David Feng book — Jiong Chinglish (Chinese: 囧图就在你身边: 雷人 Chinglish).
Since then, I’ve stayed in the Chinglish world. Both before and after the book was published, I’ve kept on contributing to the Flickr Chinglish pool. I’m staying in this fun but also fascinating “biz”, so to speak. It’s — well, you can call it fun, but it’s also a fascinating insight into linguistics in China in things related to English.
1992 年… 當時，我還小，英語也不能與今天相比。但是當我剛十歲時，就知道「什麼是正確英語」與「什麼樣子的英語有毛病」等，使我和家裡在香山一家酒店吃飯時發現一句經典的 Chinglish (中式英文): WELCOME TO OUR GUESTS! (帶有隆重口味的「對我們賓客的歡迎!」)。
到了 2011 年 7 月 14 日，我這裡的中式英文「錦集」已有 2,054 多張，實在有點嚇人。這裡有 2003 年的經典一句:「TO TAKE NOTICE OF SAFE: THE SLIPPERY ARE VERY CRAFTY」(「要注意安全，因為滑溜溜的是很狡猾的」?)，還有類似更加「雷人」的 Chinglish。當我給我的媒體界朋友「亮出」了一下後，他們也被「雷倒」了，並迅速與我和電子工業出版社取得聯絡，以儘早讓這些圖片以書本方式和大家見面。這本書就是 —《囧圖在你身邊: 雷人 Chinglish》一本書。
到了現在，我依然留在 Chinglish 世界裡。每次看到一幅 Chinglish，都記得儘可能把它拍下來。當然，不僅是「娛樂娛樂」而已，而是帶著使命去的:
徹底糾正全國每一幅有毛病的英文路標。
這個使命我十歲就開始有了，是項「長期工程」。畢竟，作為 Chinese，不能因 Chinglish 而讓自己國家難看啊!