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Chinglish may have influenced some English expressions that are "calques" or "loan translations" from Chinese Pidgin English, for instance, "lose face" derives from diūliǎn 丟脸; 'lose face', 'be humiliated' Some sources claim "long time no see" is a Chinglish calque from hǎojiǔbújiàn 好久不见; 'long time no see'. [23]
Words of Chinese origin have entered European languages, including English. Most of these were direct loanwords from various varieties of Chinese.However, Chinese words have also entered indirectly via other languages, particularly Korean, Japanese and Vietnamese, that have all used Chinese characters at some point and contain a large number of Chinese loanwords.
BEIJING (Reuters) -Chinese companies should be wary of buying U.S. chips as they are "no longer safe" and buy locally instead, four of the country's top industry associations said on Tuesday in a ...
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Store Brand Scorecard bought four batches of break-and-bake chocolate chip cookie dough -- including Toll House and three private label equivalents -- to see which cookies were champs and which ...
Chinglish has characters not clichés - the Chinese aren't worker bees, the American isn't an arrogant idiot. [10] The New York staging was called: "Fresh, energetic and unlike anything else on Broadway. Chinglish is a thoughtful, funny and poignant piece in which, miraculously, nothing gets lost in translation."
Capital expenditure by the Chinese chip industry next year will likely fall by $10 billion, or about 30% year-on-year, to $35 billion, as a result of these curbs, Jefferies analysts said in a note.
Chinese Pidgin English (also called Chinese Coastal English [1] or Pigeon English [2]) is a pidgin language lexically based on English, but influenced by a Chinese substratum. From the 17th to the 19th centuries, there was also Chinese Pidgin English spoken in Cantonese -speaking portions of China .