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Old March 24th 05, 05:12 PM
Jim Yanik
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Scott en Aztlán > wrote in
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> On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 15:45:28 GMT, "Pete C." >
> wrote:
>
>>> WTF is "Chinglish?"

>>
>>"Chinglish" is a fairly common term for text that has been
>>semi-translated from any of the Asian languages. While the words are
>>english, the sentence structure and some of the terminology are far from
>>correct english so it requires a little extra translation to figure out
>>what they were trying to say.

>
> So it's the same thing as "Engrish?"
>
> And here I was thinking "Chinglish" was some sort of cross between
> Chinga (tu madre) and English...
>


"Spanglish" would be the Hispanic-English version.

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