Comments on: Chinglish, Signese, Signology? http://chinayouren-free.com/2009/03/07/1648 Of China changing the World Sun, 29 Jan 2012 14:19:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Startups: Technology for the gentleman | CHINAYOUREN http://chinayouren-free.com/2009/03/07/1648/comment-page-1#comment-20042 Startups: Technology for the gentleman | CHINAYOUREN Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:21:14 +0000 http://chinayouren-free.com/?p=1648#comment-20042 [...] bit of background: signese is the Chinese humour contained in public signs before they are translated to English. It [...] [...] bit of background: signese is the Chinese humour contained in public signs before they are translated to English. It [...]

]]> By: uln http://chinayouren-free.com/2009/03/07/1648/comment-page-1#comment-932 uln Sat, 07 Mar 2009 15:36:09 +0000 http://chinayouren-free.com/?p=1648#comment-932 Cool. I will check if you come with some useful classification. Feel free to use mine as a basis. I am not very good at dealing with loads of images and I am sure I would make a mess of it, so I have asked readers to send pics to you instead and I will go and look for examples there next time I want to theorise signese. Cool. I will check if you come with some useful classification. Feel free to use mine as a basis.

I am not very good at dealing with loads of images and I am sure I would make a mess of it, so I have asked readers to send pics to you instead and I will go and look for examples there next time I want to theorise signese.

]]> By: Roddy http://chinayouren-free.com/2009/03/07/1648/comment-page-1#comment-931 Roddy Sat, 07 Mar 2009 15:30:21 +0000 http://chinayouren-free.com/?p=1648#comment-931 Ah, another Signesian, very good. From your recent comment on our own small site: "I see it is mostly dedicated to commercial signese, and I wanted to ask you why don't you extend your scope to the other branches of signese as well." There's no intention to cover only commercial signs. As the bulk are snapped while out and about, adverts do certainly feature heavily. But we cover all the major genres - adverts, packaging, political slogans, manhole covers, folk, utter nonsense, etc. That said, we don't actually categorize in any way, although I've pondered sitting down and doing so. Contributions are welcome, and regular contributors can be set up for direct posting via email. We haven't been so active the last year or so due to the camera on my current phone not being up to much, but we still have over one thousand images available. Several hundred have been transcribed, and are therefore searchable. Ah, another Signesian, very good. From your recent comment on our own small site:
“I see it is mostly dedicated to commercial signese, and I wanted to ask you why don’t you extend your scope to the other branches of signese as well.”
There’s no intention to cover only commercial signs. As the bulk are snapped while out and about, adverts do certainly feature heavily. But we cover all the major genres – adverts, packaging, political slogans, manhole covers, folk, utter nonsense, etc. That said, we don’t actually categorize in any way, although I’ve pondered sitting down and doing so.

Contributions are welcome, and regular contributors can be set up for direct posting via email. We haven’t been so active the last year or so due to the camera on my current phone not being up to much, but we still have over one thousand images available. Several hundred have been transcribed, and are therefore searchable.

]]> By: uln http://chinayouren-free.com/2009/03/07/1648/comment-page-1#comment-930 uln Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:41:00 +0000 http://chinayouren-free.com/?p=1648#comment-930 LOL! This is really embarrasing. I know nobody is going to believe me now, but I actually (re) invented the term by myself, I'd never seen that website before! Anyway, thanks for the link. It is a great site and also good for those that want to practice Chinese. I am editing the post. LOL! This is really embarrasing.

I know nobody is going to believe me now, but I actually (re) invented the term by myself, I’d never seen that website before!

Anyway, thanks for the link. It is a great site and also good for those that want to practice Chinese. I am editing the post.

]]> By: zhwj http://chinayouren-free.com/2009/03/07/1648/comment-page-1#comment-917 zhwj Sat, 07 Mar 2009 01:47:11 +0000 http://chinayouren-free.com/?p=1648#comment-917 Signese is also a <a href="http://www.signese.com" rel="nofollow">great blog</a> devoted to Chinese on signage. Signese is also a great blog devoted to Chinese on signage.

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