signs

www.chinahush.com — (From Renren) The following are signs found in a school in China (Huizhou Boluo Experimental School). Clearly, English is probably not a subject they teach in this school.

www.sinosplice.com — John's posted two photos that in any other country would be bizarre, but seem right at home here in China. They lead you down a rather windy path where "churros" end up as "Kyrgyzstan Things Fruit".

toshuo.com — The opening salvo in a debate over the romanization of road signs. A scrappy debate in the comments, too.

"Writing Chinese words with the Latin character set and neglecting tone marks is the equivalent of writing English words with dots in place of the vowels."