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[...] a related article on Chinglish, see our first impressions on China. This entry was written by Vera and posted on February 1, 2009 at 14:49 and filed under China, [...]

By: Klara

Klara — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 08:06:26 +0000

Fun to read about your experiences!
How about saft=theft? It’s maybe consistent with chinglish grammar to use “take care of” instead of “beware of”…
Read some very interesting books about Chinese characters and the instrument Qin lately. At least the one about the characters is translated to English (China: Empire of Living Symbols by Cecilia Lindqvist) – I can really recommend it!

By: Vera

Vera — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 13:04:06 +0000

@Jean-Daniel: Bonne idee pour le foulard (pour le moment c’est plutot le bonnet, car il fait froid ici).

@Juergen: Thanks for the compliment! *blush*
I don’t know about China, I have not been too enthousiastic about it since we left Beijing (which I thought was great). I actually thought we wouldn’t be staying her this long, but now because of the visa extension problems and so on, I am starting to get a bit tired of it…

By: Jürgen

Jürgen — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 00:46:03 +0000

@Vera: Staring at you isn’t really astonishing;-)

What happened between 14:34 and 14:35 that you make that decision against China?

@Jean-Christophe: I made some experience with chinese and french people the last time on the phone. At least we understand each other. In cmmunication it depends always on both sides.

By: Jean-Daniel

Jean-Daniel — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 15:04:04 +0000

Jean-Christophe, tout à fait d’accord avec toi (post 9). Vera (post 10), si ce sont les cheveux blonds qui intriguent les gens, porte un foulard!!! Je crois aussi que les yeux bleus les intriguent. Je l’avais constaté en Indonésie où des jeunes vendeuses dans un magasin venaient me voir à tour de rôle pour finir en un petit atroupement et des rires. Demandant à l’une d’entre elles ce qui se passait, elle me répondit que c’était la couleur bleue de mes yeux qui les surprenait. Et deux ou trois sont venues voir de très près en me plantant leur regard profond aux yeux noirs! Souvenir d’escale…Have a good journey

By: Vera

Vera — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 12:37:06 +0000

@Daniel et ManudeFlo: Maybe they meant: Take care of the staff??? Maybe they were some monsters in reality and we were just lucky not to see them???

By: Vera

Vera — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 12:35:43 +0000

@Juergen: No China for me anymore.

By: Vera

Vera — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 12:34:25 +0000

@Juergen: In the village where we are now, it is even worse with the staring, especially towards me. Really incredible! Probably because of the blond hair… But I have decided that since today, if people start staring at me, I will flick my camera at them (gnagna, we will see how long they will still look).

By: Jean-Christophe

Jean-Christophe — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 12:33:50 +0000

@Jurgen: I often spoke about my Frenglish so no worry We maybe could compile a list of my Frenglish and a list of the Chinglish we encoutered.
Actually our feeling about the visited country is more like: we want to go back to Russia and Mongolia asap, esp. the lake Baikal, Kamtchatka and new parts of Mongolia.
As for China, we have to postpone our final answer, we are still there. Yhough, there are some places we could not visit and that I’m eager to view. But I have to say I was disappointed with China. Too modern, the History is sometimes erased to let space for China growing needs. Too polluted, on “normal” days your sight does not go much further than 500m to 1km at best, really poor. So I (or we) will come back but it won’t probably be on our priority list.
Also, a main problem in China is Chinese tourism which cannot be qualified as respectuous of the visited places and locals. Our guide book even refers to Chinese tourism kiss-of-death.

By: Jean-Christophe

Jean-Christophe — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 12:24:16 +0000

@Marie-Annick : En mode manuel, il est possible de parametrer le rendu de couleur, dont augmenter leur vibrance. Par temps maussade, nous avons tendance a augmenter leur intensite. En mode automatique (portrait, paysage, etc.) l’appareil effectue cette operation de maniere transparente. Aucune retouche posterieure sauf a la rigueur pour le contraste (mais on fait ca directement sur l’appareil photo).

By: Jürgen

Jürgen — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 19:18:24 +0000

It’s not easy to understand chinglish but sometimes fringlish (Jean-Christophe please apologize) is not even better to understand.

I think I would have laughed out loud seeing Jean-Chrsitophe starring back at the chinese people.

My feeling is you both would not go with great appetite back to Russia but you would like to see Mongolia again. Would you like to visit China once more?

By: Daniel

Daniel — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 10:30:17 +0000

Méfions nous de SAFT !!

By: ManudeFlo

ManudeFlo — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 09:46:16 +0000

(Sorry for writing in french, I heard that it was not easy for french people when I don’t speak french and they would like to read what I’m writing to you… So let’s go!)
C’est épatant le pouvoir de communication qu’on peut avoir sans parler la même langue!
Franchement, je n’aurais jamais imagnié qu’ils seraient si ‘intrusifs’ à vous écouter, lire par-dessus votre épaule, etc, je pensais vraiment qu’ils étaient très réservés! C’est super chouette d’avoir un regard différent vu de l’intérieur de ces personnes qui vivent si loin de nous et qui sont si différents! Sinon, pour faire un peu moins sérieux que l’interprétation ’safety’ (qui me semble pas mal du tout) et donc selon Wikipedia, il faut faire attention à Saft qui est ‘une entreprise française spécialisé dans la conception et la fabrication d’accumulateurs électriques destiné à un usage industriel’.

By: marie-annick

marie-annick — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 09:38:16 +0000

je ne mettais pas en doute vos qualités de super photographes!!!mais les pigments sont tellement vifs que je voulais savoir si c’est sans “retouches”.En tout cas merci de nous permettre de voyager avec vous. Bises

By: Daniel

Daniel — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 08:56:36 +0000

I guess “Take care of saft!” does not mean “Take care of juice!” (”Saft” meaning “juice” in german.. actually you already know that I guess..)

In my opinion this is just redundancy and they might want to speak about “safety”

Take care of being/standing/sitting safe(ly) ?

They seem to be very fun

By: Vera

Vera — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 15:46:26 +0000

Tsss… non mais, pour qui tu nous prends??? On est des vraies photographes professionnels!!!

)

Enfin, la verite c’est qu’on met les photos les plus jolies sur le site, tu peux demander “les ratees” a Ivana, elle doit en avoir recu 2 DVDs remplis!

;o)

By: marie-annick

marie-annick — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 15:36:00 +0000

toujours de merveilleuses photos. Les couleurs sont particulièrement vives. Est-ce vraiment naturel? bises.