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Chinglish Starbucks Sign - Beijing, China

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Chinglish Starbucks Sign - Beijing, China
© November 26 2007, Uncornered Market

"...we just have a few things to take care of first."..Take, for example, your spelling...We got a laugh out of this Chinglish outside of the Starbuck's Cafe at the World Trade Center shopping center in Beijing. How hard would it be to use a spellcheck before getting a 2 meter tall sign printed?..Hard enough, apparently...The following day, the "g" was papered over. A few days later, a completely new sign was erected with the more common spelling "open."

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Lucy (嘉莉)
Lucy (嘉莉) LOL! Even big corporations can make mistakes! The English below that is good, though. :D I can so imagine one of my relatives pronouncing "open" as "openg". -__- Posted: August 01 2008
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Model - NIKON D70
Exposure - 0.017 sec (1/60)
Aperture - f/5
Exposure Bias - 0/6 EV
Focal Length - 31 mm


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