Ordinary Gweilo

Batgung has some amusing signs from Hong Kong. Most are examples of poor or mangled English, and one is confusing jargon. It’s always tempting to do this, but it seems a bit too much like shooting fish in a barrel and I also feel it’s unfair to criticize other people’s English when my Chinese is so poor. Still amusing, though!

Two that I thought were funny because of the way they were phrased (and they may even be amusing in Chinese as well):

In his temporary home, Hemlock is complaining about spam (not the delicious meat-based product in a can, but all those annoying junk email messages). Am I alone in finding junk emails only a very minor irritation? Let’s face it, we get junk mail through the ordinary post, and it’s quicker to glance at an email than it is to open an envelope. Yes, my Hotmail account is unusable because 99.99% of the messages are junk emails, but that simply means I have stopped using it. Of course I would prefer not to receive junk emails, but there are many worse things happening in the world.