Shanghai tackles bad English

Chinese translation | General interest

SHANGHAI - TOURISTS visiting Shanghai for next year's World Expo could be confused by signs on wet floors reading 'Slip Carefully!' So authorities in China want to make sure they never see them.

The Shanghai government, along with neighbouring Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, published a 20-page guide book this week to standardise signs and eliminate notoriously bad, and sometimes amusing, English translations.

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